Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Ed Zubrow wrote: > >>Also, at the conclusion of the Sibelius Concerto, during her last long >>solo, she broke a string. > >Just to clear this up, unless I missed something, what she "broke" was a >string to her bow, Thanks for an interesting description of the concert. Those things are scarce in these hills. That she "broke the string to her bow" brought images to mind, most of them having to do with an archer under desperate conditions.:-) Ed Zubrow wrote, in part: >Mutter's violin was probably equipped with an ebony or rosewood chin rest, >making a handkerchief there redundant. But the handkerchief underneath >would protect the instrument from her naked flesh. You have inserted a redundancy of your own. The handkerchief would protect the instrument from her flesh. Naked flesh? bl