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Article: hitting a high note
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- May 1, 2008
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With a rising stage career, a major-label deal, and a growing family, Latvian violinist Baiba Skride has something to sing about
even in the branch of show biz known as classical music, good looks can only help boost your career. If you're a real head-turner, like the young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride, your record label is hardly going to hide that fact. Indeed, a few of the photos on her CDs resemble something from a Vogue magazine shoot. But though you may look like an angel, to get any long-term respect, you also have to play like one. And Skride is a top-flight violinist. She took first place at the 2001 queen elisabeth competition in Brussels, so impressing the jurors that at one ...