Violinist Rachel Barton Pine From Mozart to Metallica

In this video we chat with Rachel Barton Pine, this child prodigy, who played at age 3 and made her solo debut at age seven, has worked with numerous famous conductors - Erich Leinsdorf, Placido Domingo and Charles Dutoit to name a few. Hailed as “the most charismatic, the most virtuosic, and the most compelling American violinist of her generation”. She can reel off a list of her favorite rock bands -- AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Anthrax, Metallica, Pantera, Van Halen, Slayer and Megadeth -- as readily as she can talk about these 19th-century composers Rachel's ability to see the connecting threads in these very disparate musical forms makes her the perfect bridge between generations of music fans.

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