Roger Federer has a future - on the podium
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Roger Federer has a future - on the podium
Peter Dobrin, Inquirer Classical Music Critic
The power, the control, the macho head games. The thrill of having so many souls hanging on your every gesture. It's Roger Federer, of course, but as you'll see here, it's not the tennis giving him that glint in his eye.
Listen to what one of the commentators calls him at 1:37 into the clip. The man may have missed his true calling.
First posted on Norman Lebrecht's Slipped Disc.
Peter Dobrin is a classical music critic and culture writer for The Inquirer. Since 1989, he has written music reviews, features, news and commentary for the paper, covering such topics as the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the Venice Biennale, expansion of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Philadelphia Orchestra's bankruptcy declaration in 2011, Philadelphia's evolving performing arts center and the general health of arts and culture.
Dobrin was a French horn player. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a master's degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Elliott Galkin. He has no time to practice today.
