The New York Times

OLD INSTRUMENTS HEARD IN CONCERT; Wanamaker Collection of Elite of String World Played for First Time Publicly Here. ALFRED CASELLA CONDUCTS Stradivaril of Golden Period of the ...

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NPR

What did the beginning of time sound like? A new string quartet offers an impression

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...
PBS

The Violin in the String Family of the Orchestra

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...