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