Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Cello Sonata at a turning point in his life, creating music that moves between tenderness, ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A series of divine coincidences joined five students from across the country to form a band that makes classical music current. In the fall of 2011, Nathan Chan, Steven Bennett, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by We asked Yo-Yo Ma, John Williams, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others to pick the music that moves them. Listen to their choices. In the past, we’ve asked ...
In 2011, Croatian cellists and longtime friends Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser spent $1,000 on a video of themselves performing their arrangement of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” and posted it to ...
After a precocious early career as a traditional cello virtuoso -- performing the standard classical repertoire and recording for Deutsche Grammophon -- Matt Haimovitz has reinvented himself as a sort ...
They’re one of the greatest glories of classical music but the Cello Suites took many decades to be appreciated and understood. Steven Isserlis tells the story of ‘one of the pillars of western ...
If comedian Rodney Dangerfield believed he got no respect, he should've tried working a cello into his act. “Even in classical music the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the ...