Laura Jones
Q: When did you start playing?
A: In grade four.
Q: What made you choose your instrument?
A: They didn’t have a viola small enough for me to start on; the choice between violin and ‘cello wasn’t really a choice for me.
Q: What is your most memorable HPO experience?
A: Watching Eartha Kitt strut across the stage, full champagne flute in hand, singing “Santa Baby.”
Q: What kind of things do you like to do when you’re not playing?
A: I watch a lot of TV, and take flamenco classes. Plus, the New Yorker comes every week.
Q: Who is your favourite composer to play or listen to?
A: Impossible question to answer—best I can do is, whatever composer I’m playing/listening to at the moment.
Q: Favourite book? Movie?
A: When it came out, I formed an almost-religious attachment to “Star Wars.” It’s still one of my favourite cultural artifacts, despite the disappointment of the “pre-quels.”
Q: Do you have a secret indulgence?
A: Most recently? The mad sad bad glad poetry that is Buffy/Spike.
Q: Who was your hero when you were 10? Who is your hero now?
A: Then? Han Solo. Now? Still, Han Solo.
