Endurance

As I sat at Davies Symphony Hall last night, watching new fiddle sensation Arabella Steinbacher perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, a work premiered in Vienna in 1881, I was struck by the fact that here were about three thousand of us listening to it now, in San Francisco, inhabiting a world the composer surely couldn’t have imagined when he wrote it, 134 years earlier. But there it was, and it so moved the audience that she received a long, show-stopping applause after just the first movement was completed, and a standing ovation and five curtain calls after the finale.

May all your creative endeavors meet with such success!