1.   He balanced the string sections between themselves.

2.   The string section repeatedly cut through his fraught baritone with great sheets of emotional counterpoint.

3.   Mark Wigglesworth has a smile which would beam the most recalcitrant string section into bowing with bravura.

4.   A string section enters to carry the lilting melody heavenward.

5.   Conductors have their own ideas about each opera, naturally, but so do the string sections that have played the standard repertory for decades.

6.   He also recorded with a string section.

7.   He had great sensitivity to the sound and use of the string section.

8.   I never noticed that the Vienna Philharmonic had no female members until I started going to smaller Viennese chamber orchestra concerts and saw string sections dominated by women.

9.   If he performs a concerto before intermission, he often returns in the second half, sits down in the back row and plays in the string section.