On Wednesday night at the Library of Congress, the opportunity to hear some of history’s most finely crafted instruments doubled as a chance to hear one of the top string quartets of today. In a ...

The slow bloom of the “Molto adagio” from George Walker’s 1946 String Quartet No. 1 opened the evening. More readily recognized as the “Lyric” from a later arrangement for string ...

Shaping a new sound for the NSO through old instruments. ... Since 2019, Noseda has been quietly loaning 17th - 19th century Italian string instruments from his private collection to the NSO.

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet.Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

Alvarez in 2019 took over Kolstein Music, an 80-year old string-instrument maker, retailer and repair company based in Baldwin on Long Island. Eight months ago, ...

The patient on the bed wasn’t of flesh and bone, and there was no disease that the machine could scan for. Instead, this was a 19th-century double bass, the largest of the string instruments, on loan ...

Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the composer is trying to express nothing less than the dawn of the universe, ...

On Wednesday night at the Library of Congress, the opportunity to hear some of history’s most finely crafted instruments ...

Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the composer is trying to express nothing less than the dawn of the universe, ...