Violinist and conductor Patrick Rafter is artistic director of Marble City Music Festival, which takes place in Kilkenny from May 8th to 15th. Are you a saver or a spender? I’m a bit of both. You have ...
At the Morgan Library’s Mozart exhibition, Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany dish on playing classical music’s most notorious ...
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“Let’s play!” For most of us, that short sentence, invitation even, would be music to our ears but the question may be this: what sort of music is it to our ears?Music can be sorrowful, inspirational, ...
Any doubts that she might struggle to replicate the grandeur of her Lux album were dispelled in a show that combined opera, ...
Hurrah, another bank holiday weekend! If you're lucky enough to have any (or all) of the three-day weekend off work, make the ...
Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...
A BRITISH conductor knocked a £1million violin out of the hands of a top soloist after swinging his arms too vigorously during a concerto. Maestro Matthew Halls looked on in horror after clipping the ...
The instrument flipped three times in the air before Vahala cushioned its fall with her foot. A British conductor gave audiences rather more than they bargained for when he accidentally sent a 1 ...
The dramatic moment a conductor accidentally knocks a £1million 18th century violin out of a soloist's hands sending it crashing to the floor has been captured on camera. The incident unfolded during ...