Janos Gereben ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Try to ignore his tearing into the instrument with such force that a string >is broken, along with a piece of wood (from a distance, it looked like the >bridge came off) -- and then admire the speed with which Kennedy trust the >wounded instrument into concertmaster Mark Volkert's left hand, grabbing >his violin from the right hand, and missing just a couple of notes. >(Volkert did a fabulous repair job mid-concert, and returned the instrument >in a few minutes. But why should it be the concertmaster who is taken out >of action like this? Isn't he the most indispensable member of the >section?) Could it be that when the tradition began he was the only person with a reliably good violin? Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]