Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards

Exclusive Video Premiere: Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards

Fiddler, bandleader, and singer-songwriter Laura Cortese (of Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards) wrote the music for the band’s new album Bitter Better in an entirely different world—pre-pandemic. However, its themes of “resilience and relief and release,” as she tells…

Casey Driessen holding his fiddle

Keep Connected with Casey Driessen

As told to Greg Cahill Keep Connected chronicles the ways in which string players and organizations are supporting and keeping in touch with their audiences or students throughout the global coronavirus pandemic. States are re-opening public spaces and shelter-in-place orders…

Jake Blount

Album Review: Jake Blount’s ‘Spider Tales’ (Free Dirt)

By Pat Moran With Jake Blount’s Spider Tales, shockwaves of brutality and subjugation echo like a field holler across the centuries, ranging from enslaved people working 19th-century plantations to the protests rocking America’s cities today. For his debut album, queer…


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Hee-Young Lim

Keep Connected with Hee-Young Lim

As told to Greg Cahill Keep Connected chronicles the ways in which string players and organizations are supporting and keeping in touch with their audiences or students throughout the global coronavirus pandemic quarantine—even as other sectors of the economy reopen,…

View from the Pit: On being an opera concertmaster

By Scott Flavin | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine “Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.” —Robert Benchley I’ve served for almost two decades as concertmaster of one…


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Lara St. John

Exclusive Video Premiere: Lara St. John Plays Franck

“It was fun,” Lara St. John said with a laugh, in a recent Strings feature about her recording of the Franck and Beethoven ‘Kreutzer’ sonatas with pianist Matt Herskowitz. “Like, really fun. We were able to approach them asking, ‘Well,…


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