YOUNG VIOLINIST TEACHING PRICELESS LESSONS
Many a violin recital with the usual touring-artist repertoire has all the excitement of hopping the 5:33 commute train to Burlingame. Then there’s the one by Simone Porter, 21, a gentle, delicate woman from Seattle with a bow arm as powerful as on a cricket bowler. And with a great love for works of conflagrations and narrations. Her program at the Conservatory was bristling with power and passion as she focused on music of narrative, flamboyance and dissent. Oh, my—I…