Featured Stories – Page 160
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ArticleGretchen Carlson performs Sarasate at the Miss America Pageant 1989
Gretchen Carlson from Minnesota - winner of the 1989 Miss America Pageant - demonstrates impressive violin playing skills in Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen.
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ArticleCellist Amit Peled performs Fauré's Papillon
Amit Peled performs Fauré's Papillon - a favourite encore piece of Pablo Casals - at the Heifetz International Music Institute on Casals' own 1733 Goffriller cello, presented to him by Casals' widow, Mrs Marta Casals Istomin.Read Peled's article for The Strad: How I came to play Pablo Casals’s ...
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ArticleString quartet entertains motorists in M5 traffic jam
A string quartet gave an impromptu performance during a traffic jam on the M5 in Somerset, UK over the weekend - traffic had come to a standstill when a horse escaped.Violinist Lu Jeffery joked to the BBC that their next venue could be the M6 or M25.
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BlogsVideo: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton perform in the film Limelight
The great screen comedian Charlie Chaplin teams with the equally great Buster Keaton in the film 'Limelight' - giving a disastrously funny performance on violin and piano respectively.Watch the video below:Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton (limelight... by Mallu-palaceChaplin was an accomplished amateur violinist who composed many of the ...
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ArticleViolinist Jascha Heifetz...and goat!
It may be childish, but it tickled our funny bone...A mash-up between Jascha Heifetz performing the finale of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and a particularly vocal (and remarkably in tune) goat.Watch a video of Heifetz imitating bad playing.
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ArticleViolinist Jascha Heifetz imitates bad playing
Violinist Jascha Heifezt gives a wincingly accurate impression of a bad performance he once heard of Vieuxtemps' Fourth Violin Concerto - proving not only his gifts as a performer, but also as a sharply observant comic. Read former Heifetz pupil Sherry Kloss's article: Studying the violin with ...
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ArticleCellist János Starker on vibrato
Vibrato is tension and release. I had an argument with Paul Rolland, who claimed I was rolling above the note and back, but I don't think so. I am in the middle of the note and then releasing' Cellist János Starker speaks about vibrato in an interview with Paul Katz ...
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ArticleViolinist Ray Chen reviews fans' up bow staccato videos
Violinist Ray Chen shares his humorous reviews of videos sent in by string players in response to his up bow staccato masterclass.Read The Strad’s 6 ways to improve your staccato.Watch Ray Chen performing Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonata no.6 at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium in 2009 – ...
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ArticleCellist Jian Wang performs Méditation from Thaïs
Chinese cellist Jian Wang performs Massenet's Méditation from Thaïs in Tokyo in 1995.Read Jian Wang's thoughts on the importance of slow practice.
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Focus6 ways to develop a smooth legato
Tips from The Strad’s Archive on producing a fluid and beautiful tone
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ArticleViolinist David Oistrakh performs Ravel's Tzigane
Violinist David Oistrakh performs Ravel's Tzigane with pianist Frida Bauer. For an entirely different interpretation, watch Patricia Kopatchinskaja perform the work.
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ArticleIvry Gitlis performs Kreisler's Liebesleid aged 89
Violinist Ivry Gitlis gives a wonderfully individual performance of Kreisler's Liebesleid at the Järvi Festival, conducted by Paavo Järvi, in August 2011. The performance showcases a particularly warm chemistry between conductor and soloist. Read 8 opinions on performance and career by violinist Ivry Gitlis
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ArticleViolinist Gil Shaham gives Mozart masterclass
Can you play that with twice as much bow? OK, now twice as much again!' Violinist Gil Shaham gives a masterclass on Mozart's Violin Concerto no.5 at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts. (Bear with the recording - at the half-way point, the camera angle and sound ...
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ArticleGary Hoffman gives Chopin Cello Sonata masterclass
It's possible play with a variety of ups and downs in the line, and to connect your musical ideas' Gary Hoffman gives a masterclass on Chopin's Cello Sonata at the Curtis Institute of Music. Read 6 practice and interpretation tips by cellist Gary Hoffman.
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ArticleViolinist Viktoria Mullova performs Prokofiev's Second Concerto
Viktoria Mullova performs the second movement of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto no.2 conducted by Jeffrey Tate. The violinist is releasing an all-Prokofiev album, including the Second Concerto, this week.
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ArticleViolinist Nicola Benedetti gives Ysaÿe masterclass
Benedetti gives a masterclass on Ysaÿe's Sonata no.5 at the Royal College of Music in London in February 2014
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ArticleRoby Lakatos performs Brahms's Hungarian Dance no.5
Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos puts his unique stamp on Brahms's Fifth Hungarian Dance.Lakatos gives a guide to gypsy fusion playing in The Strad's September 2015 issue, out now - download through The Strad App
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ArticleViolinist Nemanja Radulović performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
Nemanja Radulović, who has been named Violin Newcomer of the Year at the 2015 ECHO Klassik awards, performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at Thétre Antique d'Orange in France. The 30-year-old Serbian signed an international contract with DG at the beginning of 2014. ...
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ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger the violinist
Movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger gives a fairly convincing impression of playing bluegrass violin in this short clip from the 1976 film 'Stay Hungry'.Watch actors Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany 'playing' the violin and cello respectively in the film Master and Commander.
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ArticleHappy Birthday violinist Maxim Vengerov
Violinist Maxim Vengerov is given a birthday surprise during a performance in Amsterdam in 1994.Watch Vengerov giving a showstopping performance of Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins with pianist Itamar Golan from the same concert.
