Wheeling Symphony Music Director Andre Raphel Smith will be conducting the concert. He shared his thoughts on Bernstein’s split personality, Richard Strauss’s sense of humor, and playing Brahms after an all-Beethoven concert.
Meyers also has a new album "Smile," that showcases her wonderfully lyric playing on music of Charlie Chaplin, Olivier Messiaen, Franz Schubert, Arvo Pärt, and more (have you heard Jim Lange spinning it on the radio?) We talked about the music on that album, as well as her choice of violin and some upcoming plans:
Here's a brief sample of "Moonlight over the Ruined Castle"
and of "Spiegel im Spiegel" [Mirrors in Mirrors]