Johnson Strings Story

2016 Graduation Sale

Sponsored Story by Johnson String Instruments Our annual Graduation Sale is here! Now through June 30th, stop in to our Newton Upper Falls storefront or visit our new website to find savings on instruments, cases, sheet music, accessories and more.…

Piatigorsky

10 Picks from the Piatigorsky Cello Festival

  By Laurence Vittes If you want to understand what the great cellist Gregor Piatigorsky was like as a man and a cellist, and most profoundly, as a musician, start by reading Terry King’s book, Gregor Piatigorsky: The Life and Career…


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Strings Sessions Presents: Zuill Bailey

Finding time in between teaching cello at the University of Texas, El Paso, programming the Sitka Summer Music and Northwest Bach festivals, El Paso Pro Musica, the Mesa Arts Center Series, and recording with the Cypress Quartet at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch, Zuill…


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Rachel Barton Pine

Rachel Barton Pine Denied Boarding

By Megan Westberg In another incident highlighting the sometimes ambiguous nature of air travel with an instrument, violinist Rachel Barton Pine was denied boarding an American Airlines flight from Chicago’s O’Hare airport bound for Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is…

Kelly Hall-Tompkins

5 Minutes with Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins

By Laurence Vittes “Kelly is the Fiddler on Broadway!” read an email Kelly Hall-Tompkins sent to friends recently after landing the gig as the Broadway Orchestra’s concertmaster in Fiddler on the Roof. Like other concert violinists performing Fiddler music—the 1971…


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Strings Sessions Presents: Francesca dePasquale

Francesca dePasquale stopped by the Strings studio to perform two movements of unaccompanied Bach from her debut self-titled album. DePasquale was born into a musical family and started playing violin at age three: her father, the late William dePasquale, served as the Philadelphia…


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