I couldn’t shake the idea of writing a book of interviews with great cello teachers, which led to my book "The Art of Listening: Conversations with Cellists."
Robert Cohen traded in a famous Stradivari cello for a younger Tecchler—30 years later, he's as dazzled by its sound & feel as he was the day he first played it.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra presented Florence Price's Symphony in E minor in 1933, making her the first African American woman to have a work performed by a major U.S. Orchestra.
The first recording from violist Emma Wernig, "The Viennese Viola," with pianist Albert Cano Smit, adds another layer to the rich musical torte that is Vienna.
It’s not that I’m unhappy, exactly. Yet here I am, a cellist weeping over a book full of unplayed notes. But then a voice in my head says, “You’ve still got Bach.”
But as it reaches the elusive place known as “mid-career,” the New York–based Attacca comes by its youthful vibe honestly, with its eclectic, try-anything ethos.
Educators are beginning to conserve, understand, & teach the underrepresented music and musicians beyond what classical musicians have traditionally been taught.
