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Blake Pouliot: Mendelssohn with the KSO

Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot jumps in at the last moment for Philippe Quint, playing the Mendelssohn violin concerto in a program that also includes the Knoxville premiere of one of the 'great pantheon of American symphonies' - the Negro Folk Symphony by William Levi Dawson. Charlotte Wilson talks to Blake Pouliot and music director Aram Demirjian about these KSO masterworks concerts February 23 and 24