The Gettysburgian

Sunderman Conservatory of Music Hosts High School Students for “String Day”

By Jules Young, Arts and Entertainment Editor  On Thursday, Oct. 9th, Sunderman Conservatory hosted roughly 100 high school ...
UMass Lowell

String Project

The UMass Lowell String Project is a music education and community engagement initiative housed in the Department of Music that provides music instruction to students grades 3-12 from the Merrimack ...
American Songwriter

Legendary Guitars: Roger McGuinn’s Rickenbacker 360-12, 370-12

With ringing intros written on a Rickenbacker 12-string that helped define the musical tastes of a generation, the songs of The Byrds changed the shape of contemporary music in the mid- and late 1960s ...
University of Delaware

Calidore String Quartet

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...
The New York Times

1 Man. 12 Strings. 300 Guitars.

The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments, carefully stored in a climate-controlled room. By Zoë Lescaze In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most ...
Los Angeles Times

At the Huntington, the New Hollywood String Quartet recalls legendary studio musicians

When four top film studio musicians formed the Hollywood String Quartet in the late 1930s, its name was presumed an oxymoron. Exalted string quartet devotees belittled film soundtracks, while studio ...