
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


The Canadian violinist Lara St. John was a child prodigy who was only two when she started playing her instrument. But her young age also made her extremely vulnerable. When she was 14, Lara was sexually assaulted and raped by her 78-year-old instructor at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. It took more than 35 years for the school to acknowledge the abuse she suffered. Now, Lara is making a documentary to highlight sexual abuse in the classical music world. She sits down with Tom Power to talk about the project and how she’s trying to make classical music safer moving forward.
By CBC4.5
225225 ratings
The Canadian violinist Lara St. John was a child prodigy who was only two when she started playing her instrument. But her young age also made her extremely vulnerable. When she was 14, Lara was sexually assaulted and raped by her 78-year-old instructor at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. It took more than 35 years for the school to acknowledge the abuse she suffered. Now, Lara is making a documentary to highlight sexual abuse in the classical music world. She sits down with Tom Power to talk about the project and how she’s trying to make classical music safer moving forward.

242 Listeners

414 Listeners

115 Listeners

389 Listeners

163 Listeners

215 Listeners

73 Listeners

767 Listeners

32 Listeners

12 Listeners

113 Listeners

184 Listeners

453 Listeners

34 Listeners

92 Listeners

159 Listeners

36 Listeners

106 Listeners

280 Listeners

278 Listeners