All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 447
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VideoWorking from home: Carducci Quartet perform Philip Glass’s String Quartet no.2
The Anglo-Irish ensemble perform the third movement of Glass’s String Quartet no.2 ‘Company’
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NewsJulian Lloyd Webber curates online concert series in aid of NHS workers
‘Art Saves Us’ is an online concert series in support of NHS Workers, launching on Friday 3rd April
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NewsTamsin Waley-Cohen has co-founded Living Room Live
The violinist has co-founded a website streaming live concerts from musicians’ homes
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VideoHand puppets play the cello
From the cellist Katie De La Mare (performer on this video): ‘So I’m stuck in a room with a cello and a bunch of puppets. This was only a matter of time… 😂 (Thanks to Roxanne Scott for filming and screaming!)’ Songs played: Theme from Jaws Tarantella by W. H. ...
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Focus7 ways to harness mental practice for musicians
Tips for using mental imaging to boost your musical practice regime from The Strad’s archive
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FocusWhere can musicians find financial support at this time?
A round-up of UK and US-based organisations offering financial support to musicians during these challenging times
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NewsFundraising campaign launched for freelance musicians in Germany
The German Orchestra Foundation has so far raised more than €855,000 for the emergency fund
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NewsLondon’s Barbican extends closure to 30 June 2020
The arts space also calls for donations from audiences ’to enable it to keep investing in the artists and organisations it works with’
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NewsViolin and bow makers collaborate to raise money for musicians’ fund
Luthier Jacob Brillhart is live-streaming the building of a $10k violin for ’Musician Aid’
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NewsLondon Music Masters waives group teacher training fee
In response to the impact of Covid-19 on the arts, the music education charity will waive its course fee for the 2020/21 cohort of Team Teach
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VideoViolinist plays classical music for South Korea hospital patients
Won Hyung-joon performed Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria just outside the hospital room occupied by a family of coronavirus patients
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VideoYo-Yo Ma and Youth Music Culture Guangdong perform Bach
Ma is artistic director of the annual training programme, which takes place in Guangzhou, China
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NewsGeneva Competition extends its cello application deadline to 15 June
Due to the impact of the coronavirus, the Geneva Competition has extended the registration deadline for this year’s Cello Competition to 15 June
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FocusTechnique: How do you develop musicality?
Exercises and advice from Ross Harbaugh, professor of cello at Miami’s Frost School of Music, to help build musical awareness and understanding
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NewsIsabelle Faust plays Bach in empty St Thomas Church, Leipzig
The concert took place at 4pm on Sunday 5 April
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NewsTasmin Little postpones retirement
In response to concert cancellations as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the violinist has postponed her retirement from the concert platform to December 2020
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NewsWorld Federation of International Music Competitions appoints new Secretary General
The Geneva-based federation has appointed Florian Riem as its new Secretary General, with immediate effect
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NewsNew cello album explores the life of a man caught up in the Albanian conflict of the 1990s
Cellist Redi Hasa, a member of Ludovico Einaudi’s touring group, has put together an album that tells his personal story
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VideoWorking from home: the Kanneh-Mason family
A video introduced by the Kanneh-Mason sisters in which they describe their daily routine before cutting to a cello and violin duet between 20-year-old Sheku and his 22-year-old brother Braimah. The video finishes with a piano performance from 23-year-old Isata.
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NewsMetropolitan Opera Orchestra violist dies of coronavirus
Vincent Lionti, a violist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, has died due to complications related to Covid-19
