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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Faith Borkowski and Georgia Burtt, ending a pandemic with a music festival
Description: Best friends: Faith Borkowski and Georgia Burtt play Jay Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell” in this week’s podcast. Georgia has named her violin — made in Germany in the 1800s — Aphrodite and says it is her most prized possession. Faith’s violin originally belonged to her mother. Her father, too, is a violinist and she has enjoyed playing with him at nursing homes. The duo are Young Leaders in the Empire State Youth Orchestra and are organizing a Volunteer Music Festival that will be held on Sunday, June 13, at Altamont’s Orsini Park from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. They have partnered with the Regional Foo...