All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 578
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NewsFury as double bassists barred from French trains
Size restrictions on SNCF trains exclude double bassists from travelling with their instruments, as musicians share their stories of discrimination and being ‘treated like thugs’
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Article2022-23 Tianjin Juilliard Season Highlights
Tianjin Juilliard’s 2022-23 season opened in September with a performance led by Ken Lam,
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News‘Pernambuco bows are irreplaceable tools for every professional stringed-instrument player’: Yo-Yo Ma
The cellist has made a statement calling for conservation and sustainable use of pernambuco, ahead of the proposal to move the species to CITES Appendix I
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FocusThe thief, his wife and the ‘Huberman’ Strad
The ‘Gibson, Huberman’ Stradivari now owned by Joshua Bell has a history worthy of a blockbuster thriller
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BlogsHow to improve your aural skills and ditch your sheet music in 5 easy steps
Simplicity, curiosity and diligence are the keys to learning by ear, according to violinist Lissa Schneckenburger
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FocusJoshua Bell on playing the 'Huberman' Stradivari violin
'It has a rich sound, powerful without being shrill or strident'
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Video18-year-old Maxim Vengerov plays Tchaikovsky
A fresh-faced Friday flashback video to take you into the weekend
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VideoBernard Herrmann’s Psycho Suite for Strings
Amit Peled conducts the Mount Vernon Virtuosi in this performance of Herrmann’s classic and chilling score
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BlogsThe Strad’s Halloween Hall of Horrors
10 gut-wrenching photos of cruelty to cellos, brutality to basses, violence to viols and more…
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News‘An Appendix I listing would silence the voice of musicians’ - Brazil’s pernambuco foundation publishes open letter
The National Pau-Brasil Foundation strikes out against the CITES Appendix I proposal and illustrates its alternatives to ensure pernambuco’s conservation
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BlogsLooking after your instrument: Fingerboards demystified
How to maintain a healthy fingerboard, including what to look out for, from Sally Mullikin of the Women in Lutherie community
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VideoSojourner Truth: a piece for violin and piano
Violinist Madeleine Mitchell and pianist/composer Errollyn Wallen spotlight the American abolitionist and women’s rights activist with a new piece
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Blogs‘Like solving a Rubik’s Cube while dancing at the same time’: violinist Robert McDuffie
Robert McDuffie reflects on the challenges of works by John Adams, Philip Glass and John Corigliano ahead of his album release on 4 November
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NewsTwoSet Violin loaned two Golden Age Stradivari violins
The duo will debut the instruments with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in concert and via free livestream on 16 November
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BlogsLooking after your instrument: a guide on caring for your bow
Instilling good, daily habits is the key to your bow’s health, writes Suzy Schmitt from the Women in Lutherie community
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NewsTartini tones: new research shows differences in old and new instruments
An Italian team has recorded the mysterious ‘third tone’, created when playing a two-note chord, as part of its research
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NewsViolin maker Tetsuo Matsuda dies aged 77
Born in Japan, the luthier lived in Chicago, US, for four decades
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BlogsLooking after your instrument: a guide for beginners (and their parents)
Instrument care is often neglected during lesson time for beginners. Here, Iris Zhulla from the Women in Lutherie community shares some tips to aid beginners and their parents
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Blogs‘Like day and night’: The Jubilee Quartet on two contrasting Schubert works
The Jubilee Quartet reflects on two Schubert string quartets that represent starkly different periods of the composer’s life
