Joseph Silverstein, who is playing and conducting this week in SSV, recommended we all go watch Frank Peter Zimmerman play the Paganini Variations on “God Save the King”. Being an obedient girl, I have just done so.

But really, now, I’ll bet that guy can’t even make an oboe reed. Geesh.

(What I really noticed is the lack of response from the violin section of the orchestra. The look very unimpressed and rather bored.

String players. Double Geesh.