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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.