Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument of choice is a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello. But you can’t accompany a Mongolian long song on a Strad. For that, you need a morin khuur. It has a long thin neck, a trapezoidal ...

Though he had studied classical music from the age of 3, and cello from the time he was 9, Rushad Eggleston wasn’t married to either. During Eggleston’s teens, the cello would spend months at a time ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Classical-music insiders were quick to peg Alisa Weilerstein as an unusually promising talent in her teens, but the 26-year-old cellist’s already fast-rising ...

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

GARRISON -- Arnie Anderson traveled halfway around the world to get an education in making violins. His daughter, Sarah, doesn't even have to leave her house to get the same education. Sarah, 20, has ...

The Bee Eaters is a fairly new project for Tristan and Tashina Clarridge, the brother-sister string virtuoso duo that grew up in and around Humboldt County, and now call Boston home. The Clarridges, ...

The Billings Ceilidh Fiddlers and The Billings Youth Orchestra are presenting a concert and workshop featuring Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas. Both events will take place on ...

On Thursday night, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum hosts a concert of chamber music performed by four young, highly skilled string players. But the Folk Arts Quartet might just incite something ...

Joy Adams and Andy Reiner of the duo Half Pelican have a knack for balance – in music, life and adventures. The couple often treks up fourteeners carrying a cello, violin or other stringed instruments ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THERE'S a funny scene in the Woody Allen film Take the Money and Run in which the neurotic hero, Virgil Starkwell, joins a marching band ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic. By Joshua Barone ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In fifth grade, we got to pick our own instruments. The middle ...