By Brian Wise
Even for Rachel Barton Pine—who has used the violin soloist’s bully pulpit to promote the pioneering American violinist Maud Powell, an original ... Read More...
Compiled by Megan Westberg and Stephanie Powell
The giving of gifts is a complicated undertaking. It isn’t only about the tastes of the recipient; there’s also... Read More...
By Thomas May
From large-scale works for the opera house and concert hall to intimate violin solos, John Harbison has created an abundant catalogue of music th... Read More...
By Marcia Peck
For me, it was “Shosholoza.” The Minnesota Orchestra had just played a full concert plus encores in Regina Mundi, the modest Catholic church in ... Read More...
Violinists Elena Urioste and Melissa White stopped by the Strings studio to perform their own arrangement of "The Star Spangled Banner." The pair also shared ti... Read More...
If you’re still stressing out about what to buy the music lover in your life for the holidays, relax. We’ve done the heavy-lifting for you—Strings tapped seven ... Read More...
By Anna Pulley
"Life is fleeting and transformation to another state is inevitable."
This is the underlying concept of Memento Mori, a series of new works f... Read More...
By Laurence Vittes
Aaron Jay Kernis/James Newton Howard/Bramwell Tovey
James Ehnes, violin; Andrew Armstrong, piano; Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludov... Read More...
Sponsored by National Symphony Orchestra
The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Summer Music Institute is a four-week training program at the Kennedy Center i... Read More...
By Miranda Wilson
“The fingers must be rounded over the string,” wrote Jean-Louis Duport in his 1806 Essay on the Fingering and Bowing of the Cello. As Europ... Read More...
