Eco Ensemble on contemporary repertoire and Berkeley’s progressive roots By Stephanie Powell On a balmy afternoon in early June, the University of California, Berkeley, is bustling with prospective students, maps in hand, scattered throughout the campus grounds. In the heart…
Competitions aren’t all about winning—four teens explore their musicality By Stephanie Powell In the art of making music, age can easily cause one to blindly assume skill level. We beg to differ on behalf of all of the teenage classical…
Text by Martin Steinberg Images by Joseph Sinnott Fritz Kreisler. Mischa Elman. David Oistrakh. Jascha Heifetz. Henryk Szeryng. Yehudi Menuhin. Isaac Stern. They’re among the pantheon of the “immortal” violinists of the 20th century. With Stern’s death in 2001, the…