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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma visited the nearly completed Green Music Center in 2011, he did not bring either of his famous cellos: the Davidov Stradivarius crafted in 1712 or the Montagnana ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Two-time Grammy winner Rodney Crowell arrives at the historic Opera House in ...

Apr. 28—In the past 15 years, Dirty Cello has traveled to more than 12 countries, including China and Iceland, playing an array of genres from rock to Americana, from blues to bluegrass. Dirty Cello ...

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 ...