I had
the privilege to interview Jessica
Cheng for the December Playbill "Meet the Musician"
page on Tuesday afternoon. Jessica is the
newest member of the first violin
section. She grew up in Arlington,
Texas and did her ungrad and
graduate work at USC. It was at USC that she studied with Alice Schoenfeld,
which Jessica described as a "really old school" educational experience.
Alice
Schoenfeld studied with Karl Klingler.
Karl
Klingler studied with Joseph Joachim.
Joseph
Joachim was a close friend of Johannes Brahms. Brahms wrote his great Violin
Concerto for Joachim.
The links
from present to past are sometimes awesomely palpable.
