Listen to the Davenport Zither Ensemble rehearse three tunes at the German-American Heritage Center. Every Saturday morning, just as a cuckoo clock chirps 10 times, the members of the Davenport Zither ...
What began more than a decade ago as research into a traditional German stringed instrument has turned Davenport into one of this country’s zither centers. “We have developed into the largest zither ...
LENOX -- In retrospect, Manfred Honeck was glad his father made him learn to play the zither. As a boy of 9 in the small town of Nenzing in western Austria, the conductor recalls, he was taking violin ...
Duo Ruut's Katariina Kivi told ERR that the band always want to show people their music first, because it doesn't sound very appealing when it is just described to them. This summer, Estonian folk ...
On October 8, 1828, Missouri’s acclaimed zither maker, Franz Schwarzer, was born in Austria. Schwarzer was trained as a wood carver and architect. While still in Austria, he developed an interest in ...
The Chinese guqin is a seven-stringed zither without bridges. It has a history of over 3,000 years and is a symbol of the Chinese musical tradition. More than 100 teachers and students from Russia, ...