Spotting Amy Domingues, Peab '12 (MM), in a coffee shop isn't difficult. She's the stylish, auburn-haired woman lugging around an instrument case the size of a small refrigerator. It contains her ...
What image pops into your head when you think of “classical music”? An orchestra, right? Playing a symphony— a composition without any singers. However, from the beginnings of the classical tradition ...
LONDON — Late on a recent midweek morning, the viol player Liam Byrne was wandering through the Charterhouse, an Elizabethan mansion in central London. The place was hushed; spring sunlight glinted on ...
For music lovers, every era has its charms. But there’s something about the 100 years spanning the 1580s to the 1680s that has a particular zing for fans of chamber music. Designed for smaller spaces ...
Nora Taksdal plays the viola and is the principal violist of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Nora Taksdal plays the viola – the slightly larger sibling of the violin – and is the principal violist of ...
This month, University of Arizona viola professor Molly Gebrian published a database of pieces for viola created by underrepresented composers. The database contains over 1,100 composers and ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Any long-haul traveller knows the horrors of jetlag. Even those who fly frequently, including international artists, aren't immune. "We're going to need a day or two to relax and get used to the new ...