“I did not panic because, well, first of all, my feeling for the piece was so strong – I love the piece so much, that there was not even a moment when I had time/space in my brain to think that I was scared.”
– Midori, on breaking strings twice (!!!) within a minute during a performance during a performance of Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s Symposium when she was 14.
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