https://stringsmagazine.com For players of violin, viola, cello, bass & fiddle Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:24:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 https://i0.wp.com/stringsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ST_Favicon_new-blue.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://stringsmagazine.com 32 32 105281277 https://stringsmagazine.com/from-the-archives-string-players-on-their-favorite-holiday-gifts/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19822
By Heather K. Scott A new fiddle or bow, interesting instrument swag, a historic music score, rare recordings from your favorite musician… What’s the best music-related gift you’ve ever received? And what’s on your wish list for this year? Strings magazine polled 14 string players to find out what musical gifts have meant the most […]]]> 19822 https://stringsmagazine.com/check-out-ezinmas-drummer-bae-video/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19833
Looking for a little holiday cheer today? Violinist Ezinma, who is on the cover of Strings‘ January/February issue, hopes you’ll find some joy in the video to her single “Drummer Bae.” Enjoy!]]> 19833 https://stringsmagazine.com/making-his-mark-these-7-players-have-found-bliss-in-hiroshi-iizukas-violas/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:03:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19288
By Greg Cahill | From the November-December 2020 issue of Strings magazine Caeli Smith met her dream viola in 2013, a few days after Thanksgiving, at the home of Hiroshi Iizuka, its maker. “I picked it up and played a scale,” she wrote the following year in a blog. “‘Nice to meet you,’ the viola […]]]> 19288 https://stringsmagazine.com/essential-historical-recordings-hassid-renardy-and-sitkovetsky/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19720
By Sasha Margolis When the thirty-year-old violinist Ginette Neveu perished in a plane crash in 1949, the music world experienced a deep sense of loss. In the nine years that followed, the grief was compounded by the deaths of three other extraordinarily gifted young violin stars: Josef Hassid (1923–50), Ossy Renardy (1920–53), and Julian Sitkovetsky […]]]> 19720 https://stringsmagazine.com/a-hanukkah-medley-from-the-israel-philharmonic/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19840
The Israel Philharmonic has been celebrating Hanukkah by livestreaming original arrangements of holiday music—one per day. Here you’ll find Yuval Shapiro’s arrangement of “Dreidel Song” followed by “Maoz Tzur.” For tonight’s special arrangement, visit the Israel Philharmonic’s website. Enjoy!]]> 19840 https://stringsmagazine.com/holiday-albums-string-music/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19825
The season is upon us (well, it’s been upon us for a couple of weeks now) during which we listen fondly to albums that remind us of holidays past and bathe the proceedings in a general glow not unlike the one coming from the 25,000 imported Italian twinkle lights stapled all over the house next […]]]> 19825 https://stringsmagazine.com/keep-connected-with-baroque-violinist-augusta-mckay-lodge/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:58:34 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19579
As told to Greg Cahill Keep Connected chronicles the ways in which string players are staying in touch with their audience or students during the global coronavirus pandemic and its lingering impact on live concerts and classroom education. Even as society struggles to reopen, virtual performances and social media outreach programs have kept performers in […]]]> 19579 https://stringsmagazine.com/george-walkers-sonata-for-cello-and-piano-deserves-a-place-in-the-standard-cello-repertoire/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:03:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19283
By Seth Parker Woods | From the November-December 2020 issue of Strings magazine Hailed by The Guardian as “a cellist of power and grace,” Seth Parker Woods is a soloist, chamber musician, and educator based in Chicago. He serves on the faculty at the University of Chicago and is artist in residence with the Kaufman […]]]> 19283 https://stringsmagazine.com/will-streaming-ever-pay-for-musicians/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19446
As Artists Confront New Financial Challenges Due to COVID-19, They Can’t Rely on Streaming Services to Pay the Bills By Brian Wise | From the November-December 2020 issue of Strings magazine In a recording career that stretches back some 30 years, British violinist Tasmin Little has seen a lot: the heyday of the CD, the […]]]> 19446 https://stringsmagazine.com/album-review-cellist-diana-goldens-tanbou-kache-hidden-drum-is-a-remarkable-collection-of-modern-haitian-composers/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://stringsmagazine.com/?p=19230
By Laurence Vittes | From the November-December 2020 issue of Strings magazine The most remarkable piece on Diana Golden’s recital of original music, transcriptions, and arrangements by 20th- and 21st-century Haitian composers, Tanbou Kache (Hidden Drum) (New Focus Recordings), is Werner Jaegerhuber’s Petite Suite in C minor for solo cello. It starts out as the […]]]> 19230