Apr 23, 2008 10:19 pm US/Central
Injured Local Violinist Returns Home To Perform
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Rachel Barton Pine was injured in a Metra accident in 1995. Thirteen years later, she's still undergoing surgeries, but she's playing the music she loves.
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She loves traveling the world to perform on her violin, but for Rachel Barton Pine, there's nothing more special than coming home to share her talents.
CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports Pine is in town for a pair of performances this weekend in Glen Ellyn.
These days, Pine is on the road performing for most of the year. But she relishes the opportunity, after a horrible accident in 1995 nearly ended her career. She was dragged by a Metra train after the train doors shut on her violin case.
"If you had told me 13 years ago that 13 years later they still wouldn't have quite finished putting me back together, I would never have believed it," Pine said. "So I have to deal with a surgery once in a while, and then I recuperate and I get back out on the road."
She's been determined from the start, a musician so talented she debuted with the Chicago Symphony at just 10 years old.
"I called them a super duper orchestra and they never let me live that down," Pine said.
Then just four months after the accident, Pine put on a big smile, faced the huge crowd at United Center and performed the Star Spangled Banner.
"Who knows where my career might have been if I had never been injured, but I am having a lot of fun," Pine added. "I am some wonderful, exciting artistic projects now, playing with fantastic colleagues, making albums and bringing music to kids and introducing my fellow rock fans to the beauties of the violin."
Pine is performing this Friday and Saturday night with the New Philharmonic Orchestra at the Art Center at the College of DuPage. The concerts both begin at 8 p.m.
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