Hartford Symphony Orchestra, led by musical director Carolyn Kuan, has announced its 2025-26 Masterworks series, which will run from September 2025 through April 2026 at The Bushnell’s Belding Theater ...

Playing cello with her spinal injury caused Hayes ... but is obsessed with playing the violin," Strickland shares. To play the violin using the student's strength and movement, Strickland devised ...

"Vili: Concerto for Violin Alone" is an extreme concerto in which its player must simultaneously play the solo and orchestra parts. The Violin Alone is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

It's a close cousin of the violin, viola, and double bass. The cello can be played as a solo instrument ... Nowadays, they come complete with a large metal spike, known as an endpin, which holds the ...

Monday, March 24, 2025 | 1-1:30 p.m. Joel Pitchon and Volcy Pelletier will perform Zoltán Kodály's Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7 for Fe ...

Anita Lasker survived the Holocaust because, as a Berlin teenager, she had enjoyed her cello lessons. The Hungarian Lily ...

The cello looks like a violin - but bigger. You couldn't hold this under your chin! Instead, it rests on a spike which sticks into the floor and is held between the players legs and played with a bow.

Playing a stringed instrument such as the violin, viola, cello or bass is endlessly demanding. You make progress on ...

Older versions of the instrument only had three strings, and were known as 'violetta'. Range A violin can play from the G below middle C, known as G3, up to a high E two octaves above its highest ...

“That was probably more stressful than actually going to space, if I’m completely honest,” said Gillis, who does not play violin professionally. “I was so nervous that he would show up and say, ‘No, ...

a violin sonata and a piano quintet – which had been given their first performances at the Wigmore Hall the previous May. Yet the Cello Concerto also harked back to Elgar’s last symphonic work ...