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thestrad.com

Since its launch in 1890, the magazine has brought its readers the best features, comment and analysis on all issues of interest to string teachers, players, students, instrument makers and enthusiasts. Authoritative, trusted and influential, The Strad keeps readers informed about the latest news, groundbreaking research and techniques in all aspects of playing and making stringed instruments through its print and digital platforms.

slippedisc.com

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violinist.com

It's one thing to play softly, but there is an art to projecting the feeling of intimacy out to a concert hall. This is one of the concepts that violinist Donald Weilerstein discussed on the third day of the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies. Weilerstein earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Juilliard in the 1960s, played for 20 years in the Cleveland Quartet and has served on the Juilliard faculty since 2000. He also talked about posture and sound production, offering concepts of balance and energy grounded in practices such as tai chi and yoga. Those concepts can get a bit esoteric, even seeming a little off-topic. But let's not forget: violin playing is both a physical pursuit and a practice that requires uncommon devotion. In that context, we certainly can use some sound body-mind advice, and Weilerstein, at age 85, has been honing his message for many years! Weilerstein's ideas about projecting intimacy were in response to the day's first performance, by student artist Josh Liu, who played the first movement of Bernstein's "Serenade, after Plato's Symposium." Liu, a master's student at Yale University, played the very exposed opening to this movement with excellent control, with a good mix of vibrato and non-vibrato. He also not only hit the insanely high A but also applied vibrato here. (Symposium Artistic Director Brian Lewis had spoken of that note in his pedagogy class the day before, commenting that it's so high, "it's actually here..." reaching all the way behind his head!) The movement eventually evolves into an elegant dance, and here the music started feeling a little internal - or to say it more simply, too quiet to let the audience in. Weilerstein addressed this by going straight to the fundamentals: he had Josh play a scale, then asked him where he felt the sound. The answer: his chest. Weilerstein wanted him to think more like

pizzicato.lu

ICMA and the Bamberger Symphoniker present a spectacular Award Ceremony Gala on Wednesday 18 March. The concert will be available for free to wider audiences by livestream on Deutsche Welle’s YouTube Channel. The program for this Gala concert will feature winners of this year’s award panel with an attractive musical program. Jakub Hrůša, Artist of […]

operawire.com

In December 2023, Unesco announced its decision to include the most Italian of all arts, that explodes with passion and is powered by mastery in music, singing, drama, and design, the Italian Opera, or simply Lirica as it is called in Italy, under its category of Intangible Cultural Heritage. This summer, the Arena di Verona Foundation invited all lovers of {…}

classicfm.com

Considered one of the most gifted performers of her generation, American-Greek soprano Maria Callas has continued to cast a spell over audiences, both young and old, long after her untimely death in 1977.

menuhincompetition.org

Explore the laureates of the Menuhin Competition. Celebrate the achievements of past winners and their musical journeys.

symphony.org

In Tuesday’s (3/31) Montreal Gazette, T’Cha Dunlevy writes, “Rafael Payare is starting to feel like a Montrealer. The maestro embarks on his fifth season at the head of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal this fall…. Originally from Venezuela, Payare and his wife, acclaimed American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, settled with their daughters in Outremont before moving... Read more »

noise11.com

Support Act, the music industries fund to help musicians and families of musicians in need, has launched a new fundraiser Bandwagon. Support Act is a unique organisation in the music industry, helping music professionals who are facing hardship due to illness, injury or some other crisis that impacts on their ability to work in music.