By Cristina Schreil Anyone strolling around San Francisco hot spots in late spring might have encountered a bittersweet sight: the members of the esteemed Cypress Quartet performing Beethoven string quartets on the occasion of its disbanding. For those who missed…
By James N. McKean The importance and sophistication of purfling—and the dangers of making it in the bathtub of a New York apartment “Water is running down!” came a muffled shout from the apartment downstairs, along with the thump of…
By Stephanie Powell The second International Piatigorsky Cello Festival delivers all-star talent and a celebration of all things cello Sitting adjacent to Ramo Hall at the University of Southern California after giving an afternoon master class in late May, cellist…
By Cristina Schreil Talk about power in numbers. A debut album from Trio 180—violinist Ann Miller, cellist Nina Flyer, and pianist Sonia Leong, the faculty piano-trio-in-residence at the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music—presents a fine collection of chamber-music…
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By Greg Olwell Luthier Andrew Carruthers on his journey as a violin maker and leap to graphic design As I walk toward a mid-century ranch house about an hour north of San Francisco, loud scratching sounds come from the garage.…
By Patrick Sullivan Students excited and concerned as two Boston music schools join forces They’ve been next-door neighbors for decades. And now two of the nation’s most venerable music institutions—the Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory—have joined forces,…
Text and images by Dimitri Musafia The many similarities with another example exhibited at the Chi Mei Museum in Taiwan provide unprecedented evidence of Stradivari’s case production in series Antonio Stradivari built over 1,100 instruments—many of which left the workshop…
By Cristina Schreil Canadian violinist James Ehnes has once again assembled a pleasing collection of beautiful violin sonatas. Delivering sensitive performances with pianist Andrew Armstrong, Ehnes taps into the evocative emotional power of four works from the early 1900s—here, Debussy’s…
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For his latest release, Joshua Bell joins with longtime musical partners Steven Isserlis and Jeremy Denk to rediscover Brahms and unearth a Schumann rarity Text by Thomas May Images by Shervin Lainez “Humanity . . . must in the long…