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“There is a little fear and there is a lot of satisfaction. It usually goes fairly well, because I spend a lot of time on it. I start practicing probably a month or two beforehand and very, very slowly. Then I just work it up, so if I do it a hundred times or a thousand times perfectly - then when you get to the performance there is no doubt in your mind that something is going to happen.”

Mindy Kaufmann, Flutist and Piccolo player with the New York Philharmonic about playing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4

Being asked by Elliott Forrest on the NYPhil Podcast from 14.09.2007: Is there a special kind of joy or fear associated with having a solo in a symphony and being so exposed?

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