All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 420
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VideoBožo Paradžik leads a double bass quintet
Božo Paradžik and students record a bass quintet arrangement of Czech composer Václav Vačkář’s march Šohaj. The musicians are, left to right, Oskari Hänninen, Božo Paradžik, Madlaina Küng, Cecilia Perfetti and Marko Hristoskov.
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VideoSeagulls divebomb spectators at LA Phil open air gig in Edinburgh
During much of Gustavo Dudamel’s orchestra’s performance for the opening of the Edinburgh Festival, which consisted of several iconic film scores by composers from Max Steiner to John Williams, the LA Philharmonic was accompanied by flocks of shrieking seagulls, with some of the birds reportedly dive-bombing spectators.
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VideoMendelssohn’s Octet - with 100 unheard bars of music
This performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet contains 100 bars of unheard music. The performers are: violinists Nicholas Kitchen, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ani Kavafian and Hagai Shaham; violists Katharina Kang and Paul Neubauer; and cellists Antonio Lysy and Beiliang Zhu.
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NewsBrains work in sync during music therapy
Hyperscanning demonstrates that the brains of a patient and therapist become synchronised in a music therapy session
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FocusLisa Jacobs’s top 5 practice tips
To tie in with the release of her Nielsen CD, the Dutch violinist shares her insight into getting the most out of your practice
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NewsCCTV images released after theft of valuable violin on Thameslink train
Officers have released CCTV images that might help with their investigations
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VideoHilary Hahn gives her first live Instagram performance for UNICEF
During a strike across Radio France in June, in which her concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France was cancelled, Hilary Hahn performed Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto live on Instagram instead, without orchestral accompaniment, raising money for UNICEF.
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FeatureAnton Lukoszevieze: Life Lessons
The British cellist, composer and founder of new music group Apartment House on John Cage and how visual art helped to open his mind
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VideoPortrait of Anne Akiko Meyers aged 12 in 1983
‘When Anne was born we used to play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto when we fed her so that she would naturally love music,’ says Anne Akiko Meyers’s mother in this profile of the violinist from 1983. Includes footage of the pedagogue Alice Schoenfeld who died in May this year. Read: ...
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NewsNew US visa rules close doors for Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
New US restrictions on obtaining a visa force the ensemble to cancel its Stateside tours
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by G.B. Rogeri, large pattern, 1697
This illustration of a violin by Giovanni Battista Rogeri was published in The Strad, February 1914. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: The larger violins of this great maker are exceedingly scarce. This Rogeri’s ordinary fiddles are, relatively speaking, numerous enough, and are about the ...
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NewsShanghai Isaac Stern Competition 2020 opens for applications
Jury including Maxim Vengerov announced for the $100k event taking place next year furing Stern’s centennial
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NewsCelebrating the viola with a week-long festival in Miami
Viola Visions, spearheaded by Michael Tilson-Thomas and the New World Symphony, will include a new virtuosic version of Berlioz’s Harold in Italy
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Premium ❘ Feature8 ways to make music lessons interesting
Violinist Sid G Hedges gives advice to teachers on how to inspire enthusiasm in The Strad's June 1923 issue
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VideoIvry Gitlis plays La Capricieuse
The great Israeli violinist here performs this violin miniature by Edward Elgar on French television in 1962
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Giovanni Tononi, 1699
This illustration of a violin by Giovanni Tononi was published in The Strad, July 1923. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: This fine violin is essentially a lady’s instrument in every way, being of the small Amatise type in build. It was made in the ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureMe and my teacher: violist Toby Appel and Max Aronoff
A year spent studying nothing but technique with Curtis Institute teacher Aronoff gave future Juilliard School viola professor Appel total musical freedom
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NewsRay Chen gives Hollywood Bowl debut to 18-year-old Laura Kukkonen
‘Play With Ray’ competition culminates in Bach Double Concerto performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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VideoMagic Flute for string quartet
The Quatuor Zaïde perform a trancription of the Queen of the Night Aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The group has recently released a recording of the a selection of highlights from the opera, as arranged by an anonymous contemporary of the composer. The video was made at the ...
