Carriage House Violins book launch and performance

Last night, on a beautiful spring evening, we celebrated the launch of Scales to Scalpels with friends and members of the orchestra with a reading/performance. The site was at Carriage House Violins in Newton, a space generously donated to us by Chris Reuning, an old friend and cellist of the Longwood Symphony.  The new space is stunning - a restored mill, with original pinewood floors and beautiful high ceilings. CHV has a 50 seat concert hall where the reading and performance took place

Thanks to Karyn Wang, Nancy Chane and Lisa Barr, there was more than enough sangria and delicious food to go around.

The reading itself included performances of Mozart, Ibert and Elgar played by the characters in the book.

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It was so wonderful to share the evening with old friends; Gerald and Aideen Zeitlin were there - now retired, they are the perfect combination of music and medicine. Gerald was an anesthesiologist and Aideen a violin teacher and conductor at the New England Conservatory who taught thousands of children (including my own) to love music.
Writer Robert Viagas drove up from New York to join in the festivities. A prolific writer, Robert has published 17 books for Playbill Magazine. His special talent was to successfully capture the characters of the passionate, fascinating medical musicians that made up the book.

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Robert Viagas, Michael Barnett and Lisa Barr

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