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.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

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

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.

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

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.

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.