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Orchestral Tricks: in plain sight

2021-02-24T12:29:00

Andris Nelsons at Tanglewood (Hilary Scott)

Gerald Elias has spent many years as a professional orchestral violinist – in the Boston SO and Utah Symphony – and has been music director of Salt Lake City’s Vivaldi by Candlelight chamber orchestra since 2004. Here he explores some of the universal challenges faced by orchestral string players which ...

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