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Five Players on the Magical Voices of Their Guadagnini Instruments

Compiled by Stephanie Powell Violinist Simone Porter The Guad: 1745 G.B. Guadagnini violin, Parma. I have had the privilege to play it for about two and a... Read More...

10 Picks from the Piatigorsky Cello Festival

By Laurence Vittes Walt Disney Concert Hall If you want to understand what the great cellist Gregor Piatigorsky was like as a man and a cellist... Read More...

Five Composer-Performers Talk Artistic Vision and Grand Tradition

Cornelius Dufallo, Mark Dresser, Carolina Heredia, Atar Arad, and Mark Summer on the relationship between composing and performing

Review: Cellist Louise Dubin’s ‘The Franchomme Project’

Cellist Louise Dubin unearths works by Auguste Franchomme By Cristina Schreil Wrapping up her studies at Indiana University, cellist Louise Dubin delved i... Read More...

In 1976, Piatigorsky received an honorary doctorate at Grinnell College, where he and cellist Terry King played a duo recital

Cellist Terry King on His Mentor and Legendary Pedagogue Gregor Piatigorsky

By Laurence Vittes For much of the 20th century, Gregor Piatigorsky and a small group of supreme colleagues defined what high-level string playing could be. ... Read More...

Musical DIY: Anne Akiko Meyers on How to Make a New Violin Concerto

By Anne Akiko Meyers Anne Akiko Meyers Photo by Vanessa Briceño-Scherzer and Christie Stockstill At the end of 2012, I performed the world premiere of M... Read More...

Beethoven’s 7th Symphony Allegretto: Greatest. Music. Ever?

200 years after its debut, the transcendent Allegretto of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, continues to captivate listeners. Why is the music world so hooked?