How do you get to Carnegie Hall? I could answer that with the punch line to the old joke, but it’s more interesting to see how six orchestras are preparing to go there for the Spring for Music Festival. For six straight evenings from May 7 through May 12, these north American orchestras will travel [...]

Revisiting Titanic
Growing up in Denver it was easy to be fascinated with the history of the RMS Titanic; after all, Denver was home to the Unsinkable Molly Brown and her house is still a popular tourist attraction. And every couple of years I would get a tour of her house and a bit more of the [...]

Not Bad For a Local Boy Part 2
“Not bad for a local boy.” That was the phrase that stuck in my colleague’s mind from a conversation between students at the Aspen Music Festival and School when discussing violin soloist, Eugene Fodor. Hearing this story from my colleague, reminded me of some of the backhanded compliments musicians bestow on one another I have heard [...]

Not Bad For a Local Boy
Upon getting my website redesigned, the developer recommended including a page about my violin. He asked me to write a little blurb about it and include something that makes it personal and special to me in addition to the obligatory who owned it, who made it, etc. Remembering how the violin found me was quite [...]
About Holly Mulcahy
After hearing Scheherazade in an elementary school general music class, Holly Mulcahy was certain violin would be the instrument for her. After graduation from Peabody Conservatory, Holly won positions in the...
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