The String Teacher’s Guide to Remote Studio Teaching
Here's what you need to get started to make teaching virtually both easy and cost-effective
Megan Westberg
New Products: Eastman’s 7/8 Busan and 5/8 Pattern Double Basses
These basses are designed to “help you sound your best no matter how you’re built"
Product News: Thomastik-Infeld Releases Dynamo String Set
Billed as ideal for orchestral players, chamber musicians, and soloists, Thomastik-Infeld’s new Dynamo violin strings are clearly meant to appeal to a wide variety of players.
Mozart’s Divertimento Emerges Into a Gambler’s Paradise in Patrick Mackie’s ‘Mozart in Motion’
In his book Mozart in Motion, Patrick Mackie describes the era toward the end of the composer’s life as a “manically golden age of gambling across Europe.”
An Insider’s Guide to Violin Labels
It often comes as a surprise to learn how unreliable that paper label pasted inside your instrument can be in identifying an instrument's maker, age, and place of origin.
Essential Historical Recordings: Violinist Ginette Neveu’s Tragically Short but Musically Rich Life
The French violinist Ginette Neveu was 30 when her plane crashed in the Azores. Conductor Eugene Ormandy called her "one of the greatest interpreters on the violin of our time.”
Essential Historical Recordings: When Fritz Kreisler Changed How We Hear and Play Violin
Fritz Kreisler, who forever changed the way we listen to and play the violin, was a disarmingly charming revolutionary
Essential Historical Recordings: The Iconic Jascha Heifetz
His repertoire was enormous, comprising practically every major piece written for the instrument, but certain Heifetz recordings are especially iconic.
How to Make Irish Fiddle Music Sound Irish
In this Celtic primer for classical players, learn classical vs. traditional bowing, plus three types of ornamentation, so you can capture the sound of Ireland.
Essential Historical Recordings: The Larger-Than-Life Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky
For several decades in the mid-twentieth century, Piatigorsky was the cello’s greatest international star.
