The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.