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.

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.

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

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.

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

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.