…We have two cats, Hobbes and Brahms (one of them had to be names after a musician!) and a dog, chocolate labrador – Schubert. This is a photo of him, my violin and his favorite pass time – tennis ball: it is on the photo to the right of him. I can’t recall this dog ever going anywhere ( including my in-laws) without a tennis ball. On the days when I have students coming to our house, he knows the drill: the minute he hears a violin or a viola, he grunts and lays down by the student’s instrument case, patiently waiting until the lesson is over and the tennis balls can once again, become the priority not only of his but our lives. I brought my violin to the barn where my husband was working with horses that day. Of course, Schubert found a tennis from his previous adventures there!
Today is April 4th, 2010. Last year on that date three Pittsburgh Police officers were violently shot and killed: Kelly, Sciullo and Mayhle. Several days later, on April 9th, the caskets were laid out for public at the City-County Building. With the help of my husband, who also is a police officer, I have asked several musicians to come and play that day. In view of what had happened, it might not have been much – but it was better that doing nothing. Thank you to all of those violinists, violists and cellists who took the time to come and play that day, changing their schedules last minute. One of the violin players that I have known for years, planned on staying for an hour or so -she ended up staying the whole day. Once again, thank you to all of you – it meant a lot to people, and to myself, as a wife of a police officer.
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