The second article in the NY Times’ series “Notes from Music Camp” concentrates on Toby Perlman. The idea of the camp, though she may not have known it at the time, formed early on in her musical training as she experienced the competitiveness of Interlochen where students audition each week in front of the entire camp for placement. I know people who have thrived there, and perhaps those are the ones who can successfully navigate a difficult career in music, but many do lose the joy and purpose, as Mrs. Perlman envisioned it, of music camp. She also had a father who prioritized her music over everything else. She found she could actually enjoy studying violin under Dorothy DeLay’s tutelage and met Itzhak Perlman at Meadowmount in 1963. Four of their five children are musicians. Perlman Music Program is a dream Mrs. Perlman didn’t know she had, as the idea of it sprang almost fully grown from her head, nurtured by years of personal experiences.