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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Local musician and Asheville Middle School educator has launched a guitar donation drive to support aspiring young players.

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

Occasionally, he'll take on a project to rehabilitate some string instruments like guitars, violins and cellos. In 1986, he made his business official and rented a tiny warehouse-like space on the ...

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

Updated January 19, 2024 at 5:04 PM ET 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 ...