Violinist Robert McDuffie might have taken a different career path.
When he was growing up in Macon, Georgia, he made the varsity basketball team. But he had begun learning the violin at age 6 at the urging of his musician mother.
One could say he became a varsity violinist instead, studying with the revered pedagogue Dorothy Delay and following her out to Aspen every summer.
McDuffie will give a Harris Hall recital with pianist Derek Wang Wednesday evening.
Featured on the program are the two rhapsodies for violin and piano by Bartók; the concert for violin, piano and string quartet by Chausson; and the violin sonata by Philip Glass.
