Violinist James Lyon and the Allure of a Bruch Concerto

WPSU | By Kristine Allen

Published September 30, 2014 at 10:48 AM EDT

Violinist James Lyon, a faculty member in Penn State's School of Music, will play the Bruch Violin Concerto in G Minor September 30th with the Nittany Valley Symphony at Penn State's Eisenhower Auditorium. WPSU's Kristine Allen asked him why this Bruch concerto is ranked among the best, with concertos by the likes of Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

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Kristine Allen

Kristine Allen is Program Director of WPSU-FM. She also files feature stories for WPSU on the arts, culture, science, and more. When she's not at WPSU, Kris enjoys playing folk fiddle, acting, singing and portrait-sketching. She is also a self-confessed "science geek." Kris started working in public radio in college, at age 17, and says she "just couldn't stop."

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