The serenity and majesty of Beethoven’s famed Violin Concerto belie the turmoil of its time: Vienna was under French occupation and Beethoven was coming to terms with his increasingly profound deafness.
Despite its popularity today, the Violin Concerto did not receive...
Often, if I awaken in the middle of the night, I will turn on the television and hunt around for a movie; finding that many of them have something of a sedating result and put me right back to sleep. The other night, however, I came across “Monster,” which is based on...
I am currently in a two-week long residency at a young artist’s program in the Midwest, coaching twelve students in a variety of sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart. The participants are between the ages of ten and about seventeen, and I worked with quite a few of t...
As a concert violinist and the wife of the former musical instrument conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I am appealing to you to reconsider the draconian bill banning the trade of all kinds of ivory in the state of New Jersey.
An excerpt of Stephanie's performance of Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen in November, 2015 with the Boston Classical Orchestra conducted by Steven Lipsett. This is her own arrangement for solo violin and string orchestra. She also performed her arrangements of Car...
The Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) was a great virtuoso performer and a prolific composer of the morceau de genre, or character piece. Born in Pamplona Spain, he began to study the violin with his bandmaster father at age 5 and made such progress that...
The phrase “music of the spheres” refers to the intertwined relationship between the structures of music and those of the physical world, and a conscious awareness of mystical or spiritual qualities being transmitted through composed sound.
I have just returned from a chamber music concert at the Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona, where it was my great pleasure to collaborate with the fabulously elegant pianist Doris Stevenson and the terrific cellist (and artistic director of the Sonoran Chamber Music...
Recently, one of the 24/7 news networks had a feature on the "green" movement in Hollywood that included an actress, who characterizes herself as having "the smallest carbon footprint possible," describing how the cast and crew eat off recycled plates, use old paper fo...
