A concerto for a homeless violinist

A concerto for a homeless violinist

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norman lebrecht

September 27, 2022

The composer Dylan Fixmer was handed an unprovenanced violin while working in a music store in Boulder, Colorado.

A card inside the case enabled him to trace it to Terri Sternberg, a front-desk violinist at the San Francisco Ballet who fell on hard times, became homeless in Boulder and died in 2013, aged 61.

Fixmer has now composed a violin concerto in Terri’s memory.

Story here.

Comments

  • John Marks says:

    Eternal Rest, Grant Her, O Lord. And Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Her. (I am crying.)

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