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Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch

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Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch earned a Bachelor's degree and Master of Music from the Juilliard School and has performed as a classical violinist in top venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and the Ravinia, Verbier, La Jolla Summerfest, and Aspen Music festivals. She appeared as concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Juilliard Symphony, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, and the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, to name a few. She’s toured with legendary artists such as jazz trumpeter Sir James Galway and Chris Botti, appearing as a featured violinist in venues such as Washington DC's Kennedy Center, Calgary's Jack Singer Concert Hall, and New York City's famous Blue Note jazz club. DECLASSIFIED is her first book.

Oct. 26, 2022

Interview with Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch - DECLASSIFIED

In this interview, Arianna and I discuss Declassified, her feelings about medieval music, the origin of the book's chapter titles, Mozart's obsession with poop, her stellar cover, why she decided to create this guide to classical music and weave her own story into it, how absurdly expensive some vi…