with conductor Ryan Bancroft backstage after our 3rd and final concert
with the Baltimore Symphony.
My guest on the podcast next week is cellist Natalie Haas. There are few who have dedicated their careers more fully to being a rhythm string player, being the back up player, than Natalie. Her 20-year duo with Scottish fiddle master Alasdair Fraser is all the proof you need. We talk all about it. Then I quiz the long-time teacher at the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School about...The Valley of the Sun, an early Hollywood western.
Work continues on the new concerto by composer Roberto Sierra. This is my first glimpse at movement 3. There will be 4 movements in all.
