His father emigrated to Brussels after the advent of the Third Reich,[2] and the family eventually settled in Paris when Frank was 12.
[3] Frank subsequently began studies at the Paris Conservatoire, but in 1940, he and his mother escaped France by way of the Pyrenees and Lisbon, and settled in the USA.
Anyway, we had a great deal of respect for each other.”[6] Frank was a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players.
Frank wrote his memoirs with co-author Hawley Roddick, The Music That Saved My Life: From Hitler's Germany to the World's Concert Stages.
[3] Frank often gave joint concerts with his wife, pianist Lilian Kallir (1931–2004),[7] whom he had met in 1947 at Tanglewood.