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So did principal cellist Robert deMaine’s solo offering from the prelude to Bach Cello Suite No. 1 and associate concertmaster Bing Wang’s solo from the beginning of the Max Richter arrangement of “Spring” from Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.”

Tying the day together, the Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster that morning was a 27-year-old Muslim violinist from Nazareth, Yamen Saadi, who who got his start at age 10 in the Divan.

Her father, Joseph Fuchs, was a violinist and concertmaster with the city’s orchestra and later a longtime teacher at Juilliard.

The Berlin Philharmonic, one of the world’s great ensembles, hired its first female concertmaster last year.

Mehta led the AYS until 1998, when he handed the reins to Alexander Treger, concertmaster of the L.A.