San Diego Symphony's music director, his wife, a famed cellist, and the orchestra are on a four-concert cross-country run that ends Friday night at Carnegie Hall
When cellist Alisa Weilerstein and San Diego Symphony music director Rafael Payare fly for work, they need six plane tickets: one each for mom and dad, two for daughters Ariadna and Elina, one for the nanny and one for the cello. “On all companies but one,” Weilerstein said, “the cello has to go with me. On Air Canada, on the lie-flat seats, where it actually matters, the cello is not allowed to go in business. I can go on business and the cello is allowed to sit separately.
Since 2014, she’s played a Domenico Montagnana cello that turned 300 this year — airlines stopped allowing her instrument its own frequent flyer account in 2008. Payere grew up among five siblings in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, and played horn as a child. He was introduced to Gustavo Dudamel while in the national children’s orchestra and they got to know each other in 1995 when Dudamel and his friends broke the top of a bunk bed.
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Making music is a family affair for Alisa Weilerstein and Rafael PayareCellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Rafael Payare are on a four-concert cross-country run that ends Friday night at Carnegie Hall. They met in 2009 at a rehearsal in Caracas, Venezuela, became a couple three nights later and were married in 2013. Getting them on the road together becomes quite complicated, with six plane tickets needed: one each for mom and dad, two for daughters Ariadna and Elina, one for the nanny and one for the cello. Weilerstein and Payare own a home in San Diego and re
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