Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy ...
Back in 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston hired Shirley Hunt to play a special centennial event to commemorate a large donation of historical instruments by a museum trustee. Hunt, a Boston-based ...
Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Historical response to the cello endpin, which anchors the instrument to the floor, has alternated between acceptance and pushback. By Max Keller ...
Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...
The Oscar-winning "Joker" composer expanded Arthur's inner anguish with a new instrument that functioned like a playable electric fence. Oscar-winning “Joker” composer Hildur Gudnadottir played an ...
University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites are some of the most iconic classical music works. They have inspired not only ...
Yo-Yo Ma uses the power of Twitter to answer some common questions about playing cello. Would Yo-Yo Ma ever collaborate with a rapper? Why is it that in every movie the cellist plays Bach's Cello ...
Pune: The deep, resonant sounds of the cello will be heard at the 71st edition of Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav, where the string instrument will make its debut this year.The lineup for the ...