All Regulars articles – Page 39
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: December 2022
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ News‘Fairies and magic to folk music and spooky sounds’ - Premiere of the month: In uncertain terms
A string ensemble work that’s difficult to pin down
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Only give it as much as you need’ - Thomas Demenga’s life lessons
The Swiss cellist on the importance of memorisation and the influence of different systems
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Schumann sonata no.1 op.105 for violin and piano
Alexandra Wood explores the passionate and highly effective work of a composer tormented by his own ideals
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Sound travel and projection with cellist Herre-Jan Stegenga
Cellist Herre-Jan Stegenga on filling the hall and ideas and exercises for teaching projection
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A c.1750 violin by Santo Serafin
Jonathan Marolle investigates the mid-18th-century Italian instrument
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Premium ❘ Focus‘I was falling in love with chamber music all over again’ - Postcard from Napa Valley
Laurence Vittes finds that the combination of chamber music and the vineyards of California’s Napa Valley makes a festival that’s hard to resist
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Premium ❘ Feature21st-century technology in lutherie - Making Matters: Augmented reality
Paul Noulet and Benoit Dupeux on how 21st-century technology can add to the luthier’s arsenal of violin making tools
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Premium ❘ Focus‘It seemed like the Mount Everest of the repertoire’ - Nicolas Altstaedt on Dvořák's ‘Dumky’ trio
Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ Piano Trio always seemed like the Mount Everest of the repertoire, until the Covid lockdowns gave the German cellist a chance to find the real meaning behind it
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Making a scroll cast using foam
An efficient method of casting a scroll that eliminates the need for silicone rubber
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Premium ❘ Feature‘There are several spirits that occupy the hotel’ - My Space: Huthmaker Family
The violin-making family takes us on a tour of their Atlanta, GA, workshop
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: How teachers can help students deal with feelings of futility and despair
Neesa Sunar explores how teachers can call on their own experience to help pupils struggling with feelings of sadness or futility
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis November 2022: ‘The gigging system is not set up for fuel to be this expensive’
With the cost of petrol, heating and food skyrocketing in recent months, the outlook for freelance musicians this winter is less than healthy
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Premium ❘ News‘I find political demonstrations strangely comical’ - Premiere of the Month: Scotland Unite
An all-Scottish team joins together for a light-hearted quintet
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Paganini’s body was buried and re-buried no less than nine times’ - From the archive: November 1932
Violinist and Paganini expert Julius Siber gives some biographical notes on the ‘demon violinist’ to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth
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Premium ❘ ArticleNovember 2022: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the November 2022 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts November 2022: Astrea synthetic violin strings
New synthetic-core strings for violin
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts November 2022: Musafia Alisea case
A lighter option for four already-existing cases
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts November 2022: Coloured bow frogs
An affordable range of uniquely colourful bow frogs
