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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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