Thanks to an East Coast blizzard that canceled more than 4,500 flights on Friday, music fans will have to wait an extra day to hear Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” played on a 300-year-old Italian cello.
Cellist Matt Haimovitz has arranged the 1975 Led Zeppelin song "Kashmir" for four cellos. We'll hear just a hint of the original, and a full performance of the cello quartet arrangement. Matt ...
The sound of the cello has been firmly entrenched in Western classical music for hundreds of years, but its roots trace back to the Byzantine lyra and the Arab rabab from the ninth and 10th centuries.