Ed Zubrow wrote:

>Also, at the conclusion of the Sibelius Concerto, during her last long
>solo, she broke a string.  She continued to play the solo part with the
>string flapping, then appeared to pluck off the string before her final
>passage.  How critical is a broken string and how risky is it to pluck one
>off at such a time?

Just to clear this up, unless I missed something, what she "broke" was a
string to her bow, which had come loose at one end and dangled from the
other as she continued bowing.  I didn't see her break a violin string.

Walter Meyer