Brendan Slocumb remembers that moment that classical music just clicked for him. BRENDAN SLOCUMB: The first piece of classical music that I heard was Mozart's "Symphony No. 40." (SOUNDBITE OF ...
The members of Black Violin want to change perceptions about who can play what kind of music. Wil Baptiste on viola and Kev Marcus on violin met as high school orchestra nerds. Today they play ...
Antonio Stradivari's violins are so famous they make the news when they get stolen. But are they really worth the steep price tag? I found out when I took one for a bluegrass test drive ... It's the ...
TwoSet perform in London in a sell-out, one night only concert Brett Yang and Eddy Chen met at after-school maths tutoring when they were growing up in Australia - now they are selling out ...
With sparkly hula-hoops circling their waists, Brett Yang and Eddy Chen started their energetic rendition of the Bach Double Violin Concerto’s first movement. The piece is normally stoic and ...
When Brett Yang and Eddy Chen played a rendition of their favourite violin piece on the streets of Sydney last month, hundreds of people stopped and listened. They played for five days, and by the ...
Polemic rarely works in fiction, and that's for a very good reason: Fiction begets empathy, and polemic encourages attack. But in his debut thriller The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb employs ...
When Black Violin made their St. Louis debut nearly ten years ago, they left a lasting impression on the sold‑out audience at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The duo—Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus—is bringing ...
She’s described as the world’s most exciting violinist. Now Patricia Kopatchinskaja is making her debut at the Edinburgh Festival. She talks to Ivan Hewett The opposite of a perfectly-honed classical ...
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