text: Well that's interesting. I was just going to bring that up. You seem like a perfect person to try new things. The last time we got together, I think you had just been skydiving.
  "That's right. The last time. And I remember I was really trying to convince you to come with me and you held pretty firm on your [answer] — NO."
  "It was just one of those things that's always been on my bucket list. I think part of it is that performers are used to that adrenaline rush, being on stage and playing for live audiences and having that excitement generate from the hall. You feel it from the stage and it literally tingles through your entire body. And then, on your free time, with the whole 'work hard/play hard' mantra, you try to look for that elsewhere too."
  "So I've grown up always going whitewater rafting and loving to go horseback riding and para-gliding every summer. Skydiving just seemed like the natural progression, and something that I've always wanted to do. So I grabbed three of my close friends and the four of us went skydiving. I'm so glad we got to do it before all of this hit."
  It's astonishing. It's such an adrenaline rush. There's this split second where your body fights you when somebody opens the door of the airplane while you're in the sky; and somebody counts down for you - three, two, one -- and then tells you to jump out of a perfectly good airplane," she laughs.
  "But you're strapped to an instructor who does everything. The first 60 seconds [are] freefall, which is unbelievably exciting. And then the instructor deploys the chute at exactly the right time. They're professionals. I'm glad we got to do it before all this happened."
  "We all hope that this will be over soon, and that everyone can go back to their normal lives. We'll see. We're all taking it one day at a time, but at a certain point, you have to realize that the concerts ... that's probably the last phase that will open."
  "So much of what I've been performing until now has centered around the big, romantic, robust sort of masterpiece concertos. For now, I'm finding such comfort in going back to Bach and Mozart; it's something that's very cleansing and beautiful. With what's going on right now, it just seems very fitting. "