maiden voyage

I have never been this nervous before. The house lights dim and the applause fades, replaced with that peculiar stuffy silence that anticipates the first note of a concert. The four players on stage lock eyes. But I am in the audience, not one of them. So why is my heart pounding? Because the quartet [...]

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three thousand years

The Beethoven concerto provided a significant intonation challenge for me. It combined the classical purity of a Mozart concerto with quite a few gymnastics that I was not accustomed to performing so cleanly. Those lessons were frustrating in the beginning, both for me and Mr. Galimir as he impressed upon me the importance of playing [...]

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