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

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

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.

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

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.

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.