Music
Column: Perform violin for free? In a dozen community orchestras around Chicago, the musicians have one thing in common, they play for the love of music
I don’t always start fights at parties. But one night three years ago, I introduced myself to someone in a way that really mashed his buttons: “I’m an amateur violinist.” He protested. Why so self-deprecating? I protested right back: I was proud to be an amateur, in the truest sense of its Latin root, …
