All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 134
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ArticleChinese quartet wins Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition
The Amber Quartet won three prizes at the finals of the Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne on 14 July. The Chinese ensemble took the grand prize, the quartets division prize and the prize for best interpretation of a contemporary work – Chinese composer Zhang Zhao's 2001 ...
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ArticleUtah Symphony principal cellist Ryan Selberg dies aged 66
The Utah Symphony has announced that its principal cellist, Ryan Selberg, has died. He was 66. He had held the principal's chair since 1975. Selberg studied cello with Patricia Thomsen Pinkston and Joseph di Tullio, and graduated from UCLA with a BA in Music Performance. Staying ...
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ArticleBow maker uses human hair for shampoo advertising stunt
A bow maker in Singapore has swapped horsehair for human hair as part of a promotion for a shampoo brand. Paul Goh's services were called upon by the Singapore and Manila branches of advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, which wanted to find a new way to ...
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ArticleBow maker uses human hair for shampoo promotion stunt
A bow maker in Singapore has swapped horsehair for human hair as part of a promotion for a shampoo brand. Paul Goh's services were called upon by the Singapore and Manila branches of advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, which wanted to find a new way to ...
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BlogsThe legend of Stradivari lingers on
Ariane Todes reviews a programme that celebrates the Stradivari mythology rather than challenging it
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ArticleBeyond classical: Joe Venuti
Dick Cavett introduces the great jazz violinist (listen to Venuti from 1:09)
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ArticleDetroit's Sphinx Organisation engages Yo-Yo Ma as artistic adviser
The Detroit-based Sphinx Organisation, which promotes diversity in the arts and supports young black and Latino classical musicians, has recruited Yo-Yo Ma (pictured) as a special artistic adviser. In his new role, the cellist will mentor Sphinx's leading young artists and will also advise on the organisation's programming ...
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ReviewScelsi: The Violin Works: Divertimentos nos.2–4, L’me ailée – L’me ouverte, Xnoybis
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Weird and wonderful sounds for solo violin from an Italian maverickMusicians: Weiping Lin (violin)Composer: ScelsiRecord label Mode has been careful not to call this fine release the ‘complete’ solo violin works by idiosyncratic 20th-century Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905–88): the Divertimento no.1, ...
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ArticleRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic gets £7.5m to revamp its home
The home of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) is set to be refurbished in 2014. Arts Council England (ACE) has awarded a grant of £7.5m towards the £12m revamp of the Grade II-listed Philharmonic Hall (pictured). After receiving £634,000 in seed funding from ACE in ...
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ArticleLynn Harrell on The Colbert Report
The cellist shares his airline woes in this devastating parody
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ReviewSchubert: Violin Sonatas in D major D384, A minor D385, G minor D408 & A major D574, Rondo in B minor D895, Fantasy in C major D934, Sei mir gegrüsst! D741
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Outgoing performances of Schubert’s complete violin musicMusicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cédric Tiberghien (piano)Composer: SchubertComposed in one hectic year when Schubert was 19, the first three violin sonatas were in a style inherited from Mozart, and were described as ‘sonatinas’ when first published ...
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ArticleAustrian double bassist and historian Alfred Planyavsky dies aged 89
Austrian double bassist and historian Alfred Planyavsky died on 18 June at the age of 89. A long-serving musician in several Vienna-based ensembles, he wrote extensively on the history of the double bass and the music of his homeland. Born in Vienna in 1924, Planyavsky received ...
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ArticleConversations with great artists: Joseph Szigeti
In a 1964 interview, Szigeti explains the importance of choosing fingering: 'We must look for the line of most resistance, as Artur Schnabel said. Fingerings compel certain expression and it is this faculty of drawing out of our musical treasures the maximum of expressiveness and character and ...
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ArticleSeven SPCO string players take retirement option
Ten musicians from the St Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) have retired from the ensemble. Seven are string players, and all the retiring musicians have played in the orchestra for at least 30 years. An incentivised retirement package for players aged 55 and older was part of ...
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FocusEXCLUSIVE: David Aaron Carpenter plays Brahms
In February this year, we caught up with US violist David Aaron Carpenter as he was preparing to record Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet op.115 (viola version) with members of the Berlin Philharmonic. You can read the interview in our August issue, available now for download or in print. ...
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DebateSecret commissions: the dark side of teaching
Teachers must be open about any commission they get when a student buys an instrument, argues Ariane Todes
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ReviewLalo: Cello Concerto in D minor. Berlioz: Love Scene from Roméo et Juliette. Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto no.2 in D minor op.119
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A highly successful rehabilitation of two lesser-known French cello concertosMusicians: Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Flanders Symphony Orchestra/Seikyo KimComposer: Lalo, Berlioz, Saint-SaënsPieter Wispelwey appears on this disc as a cellist in total control of his instrument. He draws a clear, pure, but ...
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ArticleViolist plays national anthem at her US citizenship ceremony
Carol Cook, the newly appointed principal violist of the Chicago Lyric Opera, performed the US national anthem at her own citizenship ceremony on Monday 22 July. The Scottish-born Cook was one of more than 140 people from 53 countries who were naturalised as US citizens at the ...
