While modern life grows louder and faster, the cello sits patiently in the room, speaking softly until everyone ...
Across cultures and genres, listeners consistently describe the cello as “human,” a rare case where an instrument’s emotional ...
Joan Herget is on a mission to live in the zone and surround herself with the best musicians. On this episode of On Stage at Curtis we meet Joan Herget a Canadian Cellist taking over Philadelphia.
Bach’s cello suites are among the best known works of classical music, now risking popularization to the point of fatigue as they provide background music for cat food commercials. But one hundred and ...
This time in the Global Village we head to Galicia in northwestern Spain where Celtic influences have played a major role in ...
NEW YORK — It was Sept. 14, 2013, when a mysterious email bearing the subject line “Is this your first cello?” landed in Christine Walevska’s inbox. The renowned cello virtuoso, however, checked her ...
In the corner of the room, a woman is screaming and struggling. Two nurses hold her and try to dodge her blows. The wound on 90-year-old Mrs Kessler's arm is starting to fester, and they have to ...
Genre blending has become more and more the norm these days. We're long past the point where mixing rap and rock, EDM and pop or funk and jazz feel like novelties. That said, there are few groups that ...