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Interview: Callum Smart, Violinist
What have been the greatest challenges of your career so far?
In terms of repertoire, learning and performing the Britten Concerto was a huge challenge, both musically and physically. It’s a work that requires an enormous amount of stamina due to its length and technical difficulty, but it also takes a great toll emotionally. It’s really impossible not to feel how the composer was feeling during the Spanish Civil War, and it was a rewarding experience to re-tell this story.
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Ivry Gitlis On The Music Business
Ivry on the music business: ‘You have people with business sense, who treat their artists like potatoes. It’s terrible, and people go along with it. But I see a new generation of younger people who are beginning to play for themselves. That gives me hope.’
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