A Stradivarius cello is at the center of Elena Delbanco's new novel, The Silver Swan. Delbanco dicusses how the book echoes her own childhood, as the daughter of a renowned cellist. Elena Delbanco's ...
On Saturday night, Alisa Weilerstein played the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic. I have a special memory of this concerto, played by someone else, also with the ...
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and children's television are old friends. In the 1980s, he made several appearances on Sesame Street, on one notable occasion playing the masterpiece “Beethoven for cello, two ...
On a recent Friday morning, Lynn Harrell had a small audience gathered in his second-floor studio at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music to listen as he pulled out standards of the cello ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ray Chen plays 'The Swan' from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns, with Tamara-Anna ...
Trying to imagine what sound a swan makes while paddling in a stream? Saint-Saëns placed this stately bird in his musical menagerie, and gave the swan's moves to a cello.
John-Henry Crawford took First prize in the 2019 Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition, a success followed by an impressive debut album for Orchid classics of music by Brahms, Ligeti and ...
Southeast Missouri State University Department of Music will present "The Elephant and The Swan", a faculty recital of music celebrating the cello and string bass, Tuesday, Aug. 29, at the River ...