Keep Connected: Enjoy this Afternoon Respite
In an effort spearheaded by cellist Cameron Chiu, a student at the Music Institute of Chicago's Academy for pre-college musicians, 24 students from 12 countrie... Read More...
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Keep Connected: Watch This and Start the Week Off Right
Enjoy some inspiration, courtesy of the New York Youth Symphony. These young musicians, ages 12–22, are from throughout the New York region and had to cancel t... Read More...
Keep Connected: A Violin Maker for Musicians in Need
Jacob Brillhart launches live-streaming raffle By Pat Moran Jacob Brillhart is not content to fiddle while the COVID-19 pandemic burns. When he saw many ... Read More...
Keep Connected: Performance by an Octet . . . in Isolation
Under the hashtag #AloneTogether, the Cello Octet Amsterdam offers this video of "Da Pacem Domine," written and arranged by Arvo Pärt. Each member of the octet... Read More...
Keep Connected: Classical Musicians Are Getting Creative During COVID-19
From live-streamed concerts to quirky challenges to taking requests to cooking tips, string players are making the most of these isolated times By Cristin... Read More...
Keeping it Together: How Professional Chamber Ensembles are Coping with the Challenges of COVID
By David Templeton | From the March-April 2021 issue of Strings magazine Chamber music is, by definition, small, intimate, together—originally performed in ... Read More...
Oldtime in Realtime: How a Daily Recording Project Has Kept My Husband and Me Connected Musically to the World
By Elena Urioste | From the July-August 2020 issue of Strings magazine On March 17, my brilliant pianist-composer husband, Tom Poster, and I made the rather... Read More...
The Covid Chronicles: When Will Classical Musicians Be Allowed to Return to the Stage?
By Greg Cahill | From the September-October 2020 issue of Strings magazine “The coronavirus pandemic and quarantine have ultimately revealed how fragile the... Read More...
September’s Web Focus: Home Recording
In addition to our regular recurring web series, Keep Connected and Essential Historical Recordings, Strings will be focusing its web content on a particular t... Read More...
‘The Martinů Cello Sonatas’ Takes Johannes Moser Through a Thorny Sonata Trilogy
“It’s really not everyday repertoire,” admits Cellist Johannes Moser of his recordings of Martinů's cello sonatas. “I discovered that these pieces have such variety and depth."