From the Archives: "Concertmaster" (Originally Aired 1/13/05)

Fishko Files | May 18, 2010
In 2005, the New York Philharmonic was playing special concerts next week to honor its first violinist, Glenn Dicterow. He had been sitting in that first chair for longer than anyone in the orchestra's long history. As Sara Fishko tells us in this encore of the Fishko Files, his job required a particular sense of balance...

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