Would you like to premiere a brand-new violin concerto -- in six weeks? Some of us might run in terror from the idea, but
Anne Akiko Meyers said, "Sure!" to taking on
Samuel Jones' new work.
"I still think about Otto-Werner Mueller every day of my professional life, which consists mostly of playing in an orchestra," writes LA Phil Associate Concertmaster Nathan Cole about the longtime Curtis conductor, who died Feb. 25.
A lot of us pluck our on-demand music from thin air these days -- from the Cloud, from Spotify, etc. When is the last time you listened to an actual CD?