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,…
Cristina Spinei is a pianist and composer best known for her work with the ballet, which seems appropriate since she grew up dreaming of becoming a ballerina. This piece, Il Nodo, was premiered at an album-release concert at National Sawdust…
By Cristina Schreil | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine There’s a beloved analogy that reinforces the importance of having a great violin bow: if the violin is the palette, the bow is the paintbrush. It’s a vital…
Oistrakh was one of the most-recorded violinists of all time; as with Heifetz, half the violin repertoire could be included among his essential recordings.
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By David Templeton | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine Violinist Lara St. John has a certain dream of the future. The far, far future. It involves scorpions. And survival. More on that later. After recently completing a…
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. This week, Strings connected with Russian-born violinist Nataly Merezhuk. She…
“The study of Bach can be intensely humbling, and a perpetual reminder to cultivate an open mind!” wrote cellist Juliana Soltis in a recent Strings article. “I think of the Bach suites as companions for life: works that grow and…
By Cristina Schreil | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine For those who can hardly imagine getting giddy over a library collection,consider at least the sheer numbers behind the Violin Society of America Goodkind Collection, housed at Oberlin…
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By Sasha Margolis | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine Through much of the 19th century, virtuosos of the violin were expected to be masters of style, showmanship, and communication. But they were not always paragons of precision.…
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. This week, fiddler Brittany Haas, who is…
By David Templeton | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine Anyone who’s been in an audience when the San Francisco Bay Area band Dirty Cello takes the stage knows that something unique happens whenever cellist Rebecca Roudman and…
“The study of Bach can be intensely humbling, and a perpetual reminder to cultivate an open mind!” wrote cellist Juliana Soltis in a recent Strings article. “I think of the Bach suites as companions for life: works that grow and…
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By Mary Nemet | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine Now largely (and undeservedly) forgotten, Franz Clement is perhaps best remembered as the commissioner of Beethoven’s monumental Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61. He is also known…
The English quartet, humorously nicknamed the “Wolf-gang,” was intimately associated in the public imagination with the music of Viennese quartet masters.
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. This week, cellist Natalie Haas, an associate…
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. This week, concert violinist, fiddler, composer, and…
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By David Hawthorne | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine What is your favorite part in the process of making a bow? The most fascinating thing for me is the end process of adjusting the camber (or curve)…
With his virtuoso technique, richness of sound, and coloristic imagination, he was more than up to the job of establishing the viola as equal to its string siblings.
By Greg Cahill | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine “There is a creepy bloodlust to the doom-mongering of classical music, as though an autopsy were being conducted on a still-breathing body,” William Robin wrote in the New…
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