It was truly an honor to be a part of this incredible production as orchestral accordionist. It was initially supposed to be an onstage accordion part, but after some back and forth about whether I would be costumed as a man or a woman, I was eventually stationed in the pit, which is one of my […]

Review: Muti is back at the CSO and so is the drama — at the opera, on the silver screen and onstage “…Rota’s yo-yoing between operatic pathos and Sicilian folk music in “The Godfather” is the kind of expert dichotomy one finds in the Turkish bands of Beethoven 9’s finale, or the tragicomic interludes of […]