Robert Mann, the founding first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet, the internationally renowned ensemble that at midcentury helped engender a chamber music revival throughout the United States ...
The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival presents a special performance by the Danish String Quartet, a GRAMMY-nominated ensemble praised by The Washington Post as 'one of the best quartets before the ...
Performances in N.Y.C. The group is celebrating its 20th-anniversary season with a series of concerts that look back, one player says, “with a lot of forward motion.” Credit... Supported by By Joshua ...
There were three pieces on the programme: Haydn’s C major quartet, op.20 no.2, Thomas Adès’ The Four Quarters and Janáček’s 'Kreutzer Sonata' Quartet (No 1), which required the Castalians to traverse ...
When four top film studio musicians formed the Hollywood String Quartet in the late 1930s, its name was presumed an oxymoron. Exalted string quartet devotees belittled film soundtracks, while studio ...
Performances in N.Y.C. With only one of its original members in the group, this ensemble is still identifiably itself, and still going strong. The players of the Takacs Quartet, from left: Richard ...
Several are the biographies of Gerry Mulligan, arguably jazz's most celebrated baritone saxophonist. None, however, have focused as specifically and as closely as this tome does on the quartets with ...
When the Dover Quartet asked Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate to compose a new work inspired by Native American traditions, he turned to the woodland creatures venerated by his own Chickasaw Nation. The ...
Support group: Monika Henschel being held by sibling twins Markus and Christoph and cellist Mathias Beyer-Karlshøj It is actually rather obvious that there are often up to eight people in a "marriage ...