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Reprinted from
Strad Magazine 04/07
THE
STRAD’S PICK OF UP-AND-COMING MAKERS AND MUSICIANS |
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LOS ANGELES IS FULL OF ARTISTIC
OPPORTUNITIES IF YOU FIght for them,
or so believes violinist and Colburn Conservatory of Music student Lindsay
Deutsch. ‘From my balcony I see the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Walt Disney
Concert Hall,’ says the 22-year-old, who lives in ‘downtown LA’, and who
often spots artists such as Yo-Yo Ma having lunch in the neighborhood. ‘It's
so easy to just walk across the street and introduce myself to, say, Miguel Harth-Bedoya – it led to my Fort Worth Symphony debut in
2005.
A similar situation has led to performances
with the Colorado Symphony in April and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in
May, both to be conducted by Jeffrey Kahane:‘A few years ago Kahane was working with my school
orchestra, and although I was very nervous, I asked him if I could play for
him. He let me perform right there and then some of Corigliano’s
Chaconne from the movie The Red Violin and the next thing I knew he’d
invited me to his Green Music Festival.’ Film music is one of Deutsch’s raisons
d’ętre: she plays the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in
the new Robert de Niro movie The Good Shepherd,
and in 2004 she performed music from Schindler’s List at a gala honoring
John Williams. For Deutsch, it’s all about attracting more people to
classical music. ‘You’re always hearing about half-empty music halls,’ she
says. ‘So, with my solo and orchestral concerts, I might play Beethoven or
Brahms, but I’ll add music that the general audience will immediately respond
to, be that jazz, movie tunes or Spanish music.’ She also runs a classical music website for children which attracts around 70,000 hits per month. Deutsch moved to By: Cecilia Leung
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