You’re not just playing the violin, you’re playing to live this life. If you’re a student, you’re playing to find meaning. But it doesn’t mean you have to play it to do that. And I feel like, I mean, I don’t have a whole lot of time, and, you know, I love classical music, I love to hear people, like the Schoenberg score on the piano in this room, it’s, you know, I’m just thinking about my life, and I don’t want to get sick. And I’m just thinking about being healthy, you know, and doing that kind of thing. I feel like if I didn’t do that, I don’t feel like I’d be doing the violin, and I’d never do that again. So I just, I feel, I don’t know, if anyone knows how to play it, I guess you do, your friends and family and everything. Yeah, I don’t know how it works. I just feel like, you know, I’m not gonna get sick, and then I can stop playing, and I think maybe in one way it would be good, to be in this position. Because I think if I don’t, I have no more opportunities, I have no more music to be played. So I think that’s the most important thing, you know, to be able to give it your all. And I know, it’s so difficult, I mean we all are, you know – it’s a very, very difficult time. You know, it’s just so stressful, you know, trying to stay positive.
GROSS: My guest is violinist and composer Josephine Baker. She’s a former student of Violinist and composer Samuel Barber, and she’s also a composer and arranger. She wrote the music for the Oscar-nominated musical “Spring Awakening.”
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