Shutdown Skills Series: 4 Ways to Achieve Masterful Bowing Dynamics
Learn to improve bow control, expressiveness, and tone
By Laurel ThomsenTo achieve the full spectrum of dynamics while maintaining a beaut... Read More...
SHUTDOWN SKILL SERIES
If you're planning on using more time alone at home to practice your instrument, master new techniques, or explore your own creativity, this series of how-to articles is for you.
ESSENTIAL HISTORICAL RECORDINGS
Essential Historical Recordings: Erica Morini
By Sasha MargolisFor sixty years, violinist Erica Morini pulled off the near-impossible. In a mid-twentieth-century music world dominat... Read More...
Essential Historical Recordings: Joseph and Lillian Fuchs Elevated the Violin-Viola Duo Repertoire
By Sasha MargolisFew string-playing siblings have been as collectively spectacular as Joseph and Lillian Fuchs. Older brother Joseph w... Read More...
KEEP CONNECTED
Keep Connected chronicles the ways in which string players and organizations are supporting and keeping in touch with their audiences or students throughout the global coronavirus pandemic quarantine.
Keep Connected with Mark O’Connor
As told to Greg CahillKeep Connected chronicles the ways in which string players and organizations are supporting and keeping in touch ... Read More...
LATEST STORIES
Historical Mystique: Why—and to What Extent—Does an Instrument’s History Determine its Value?
By Brian Wise | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineThe provenance of a musical instrument—its history of ownership... Read More...
New Sheet Music: Six Variations with Coda on a Theme of Beethoven
By Mary Nemet | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineSix Variations with Coda on a Theme of Beethoven | By Böhm,... Read More...
Going Commercial: What Happens When String Stars Venture Outside the Realms of Music for Endorsement Deals?
By Brian Wise | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineViolinists have appeared in advertisements for soap (Ole Bull),... Read More...
Missy Raines Plays a 1930s Bass That Once Belonged to Her Father
By Laurence Vittes | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineThe success of Missy Raines’ 2018 Grammy-nominated Royal T... Read More...
New Sheet Music: Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances for Viola & Piano
By Mary Nemet | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineBéla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for viola & piano | Arran... Read More...
Silence: The Way in Which Great Composers Use the Absence of Sound has a Profound Impact on Their Music
By Evan Johnson | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineSometimes we forget how important silence is in music. It has... Read More...
Baroque Eccentric: Ruberto Sabbatini’s Violin Sonata Offers Charm and Unexpected Quirks
By Andrew McIntosh | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineCuriosity has always been my guiding light as a musician. ... Read More...
All Motions Great & Small: How to Practice String-crossing Technique for Bariolage
By Laurie Niles | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazine“Bariolage” is a French word for a bowing technique that invo... Read More...
Next Gen Jam: The omo Podcast Began as an Inside Joke… But Didn’t Stay That Way
By Caeli Smith | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineViolin maker Christopher Jacoby is editor of the Violin Societ... Read More...
Old Acquaintance to New Friend: Lockdown Inspired a New Relationship with my Violin
By Kate Levin | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineMy violin is beautiful. Its glossy surface is intermittently di... Read More...
These 3 String Players Founded Their Own Labels to Support Creative Freedom
By Jeff Kaliss | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineWhen Lara St. John sought a moniker for her own record label i... Read More...
New Sheet Music: Igor Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne for Viola and Piano
By Mary Nemet | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineIgor Stravinsky: Suite Italienne for viola and piano | Arranged... Read More...
Beyond the Music: Tips on Physical Motion and Pain Avoidance for Adult Amateur String Players
You can have the best instrument, the best bow, and great technique, but it doesn't mean a thing if you can't physically play. That's why i... Read More...
Finding My Voice on Cello: From Las Vegas Lounge to Longhair Music
By Brian Forst | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineMy road to the cello started at age eight, when my parents gav... Read More...
A Fairytale Life: Jazz Violinist Tomoko Omura Once Again Taps Her Roots on ‘Branches Vol. 1’
By Greg Cahill | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineDownbeat magazine recently named jazz violinist Tomoko Omura o... Read More...