Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

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

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

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.