Perspective is another word for point of view, and changing that means shifting one’s position in space. With music, which ...
It takes only four performers from the Castalian String Quartet to make the stage feel full. Balancing two violins, a viola, and a cello, the quartet tames the chaos with skill and practice. The ...
Jazz string quartets are rare. Jazz string quartets as brilliant as Atom String Quartet, the Polish ensemble founded in 2010, are rarer still. This, the quartet's fourth release, sees Dawid Lubowicz, ...
The quartet introduced the ostensible last song, “Hold On, We’re Going Home,”which offered a somber ending to the night. While the rendition wasn’t particularly memorable, the string plucking added ...
The Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet will perform the works of eight Bienen students in a concert this Sunday. With a repertoire list spanning a wide variety of genres, centuries and styles, Spektral ...
George Lynn was a multifaceted musician, instructor, and composer whose legacy left a lasting impact on the music community. His journey began in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he studied piano and ...
With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip ...
A cellist bows a short melody that sounds like a question. Her string-quartet mates answer with brief, harmonized phrases. Now they bow together, their harmonies expanding and contracting, with long ...
Dover Quartet Completes Its Beethoven Cycle On Cedille Records October 14 Beethoven's last major compositions, the late quartets are universally acknowledged as remarkable and often daunting works ...
Live On Stage (LOS) will host The Toledo Symphony Double String Quartet on April 19 at 3 p.m. in Wesley United Methodist Church Sanctuary, 903 Center St. here.
When you’re a kid, playing in the high school orchestra and feeling disconnected from the popular zeitgeist means any music that incorporates classical instruments is something to be celebrated. And ...