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)