Barbara LaFitte

Hometown:   Wollaston

Year joined the BPO:  2010, but played a bit before

Hobbies other than music: Gardening, reading, traveling

Earliest musical memory:  playing a clarinet solo for my elementary school assembly, and not being nervous, but actually thinking about the elephants I was going to see later at the circus.

What's on your iPod?  anything from Ariadne auf Naxos to Sting to Coldplay to Charles Lloyd to Danilo Perez  to Oregon

Other than performing music, I've always thought it would be fun to be a: archaeologist, that is a no brainer for me.

Who is one person from musical history (living or deceased) you'd like to have dinner with, and why? Sting & wife Trudy, because they are very intelligent and passionate, and he had the courage to follow his dream.  and Leopold Stokowski, he seemed like such an incredible personality