Roger Lebow wrote:

>As a sometime sub with the LA Chamber Orchestra, I played a number of
>concerts that Iona led.  She worked with a great intensity born of a
>love for the music and the musician's inevitable conviction that the
>music demanded as much as one could bring to it--and then a bit more.
>Her violin playing was masterful.  I reserve judgment on whether or not
>one can be a completely effective conductor whilst playing, but she gave
>it her all.

Did she ever poke herself in the eye with the bow?  Perlman came perilously
close to doing that several times during his NY Philharmonic appearance
this spring-it was uncomfortable to watch.

Brenda
(yeah, the same one, Roger in the Mansion of Sierra Madre)