She is also the subject of Paola di Florio's documentary Speaking in Strings, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

[1] In 1994, Salerno-Sonnenberg badly injured her left little finger while chopping onions as she prepared Christmas dinner for friends and family.

[7] The same work, called "Originis", was recorded in 2009 with Salerno-Sonnenberg, the Assads, and the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo.

[13][14][15][16] Salerno-Sonnenberg plays a Peter Guarneri violin called the "Miss Beatrice Lutyens, ex Cte de Sasserno, Cremona 1721".

Over the 25 years she had already been concertizing, "her playing, always mercurial and exciting but occasionally a little scattershot, has become positively reliable, both musically and technically, without losing any of the wild electricity that always set her apart."

The only criticism the reviewer made of her interpretation was of "her characteristic tendency to break up the melodic line into fragments".

"[1] Another critic disagreed: "I don't care what she wears or how she moves as long as she keeps playing with such passionate intelligence.

[13] She was a guest several times on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and was also featured on 60 Minutes in 1986.