radio days

I forgot to mention that I did a radio interview with Caitriona (pronounced Katrina) Bolster at KWAX-FM this afternoon.  It was for a preview of the upcoming Sunriver Music Festival season, and it was an easy interview.  I mentioned being a member of the Arnica Quartet, and she asked if that was anything like the homeopathic remedy, and I told the story of the naming of the quartet: we were rehearsing a difficult section in the Beethoven Op. 59 no 2 “Razumovsky” and our first violinist complained of a sore left arm.  Shin, our second violinist, immediately produced a tube of her trusty arnica gel, and we joked that we used so much of the stuff that we should call ourselves the Arnicas, and it stuck!