ina minute. focus." and then, when i would play, i would be very focused. what did the experience of playing with the orchestra at that age teach you? what did you take away from that, do you think? it�*s just. . . it�*s just unreal. there is nothing like the feeling of playing in a full symphony orchestra. and when you have grown to love certain pieces of music and then you literally hear that come to life with a group of 90 people, i mean, it�*s like a wave that has its own momentum and life to it, and all these voices talking to each other within such a mass group. and being part of that sound, helping to make that sound... yes. you must have known at that age that this was your life, this is what you wanted to do... oh, i knew very young that there was no question i wanted to play the violin. like, really very quickly. even going to music school, for me, which was a difficult thing to do. i was incredibly homesick and, er...sort of didn�*t make friends immediately, and all kind...