This past Halloween, after his 7:00 p.m. sound check but well before his 10:00 p.m. solo performance at the 400 Bar, a Minneapolis rock club, classical music cellist Matt Haimovitz found himself with ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THERE'S a funny scene in the Woody Allen film Take the Money and Run in which the neurotic hero, Virgil Starkwell, joins a marching band ...

Icelandic cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir arrived in Seattle last month to take a three-year artist-in-residence position at the University of Washington’s School of Music. But her cello was familiar ...

The 22 cellists from around the world come from all walks of music. They will play rock and pop to high-end classical; jazz improvisation to solos with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Artistic ...

Their concept was super simple: two guys, two cellos, and one medley. Oh, and one unforgettable name: Two Mellow Cello Fellows. “Our name was actually kind of a joke,” says Christopher Halen, one of ...

When Australia voted for its favourite instrument in this year’s ABC Classic 100, it was the beautiful, mellow tones of the cello that came in at #1. Voters spoke of how the cello ‘cuts straight ...

Don't worry about Friday the 13th , there's plenty of music to combat superstition. Because the International Accordion Festival will rule La Villita on Saturday and Sunday (see Page 10), we'll take a ...

If comedian Rodney Dangerfield believed he got no respect, he should've tried working a cello into his act. “Even in classical music the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the ...

WHEN musicians Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh began collaborating, their ambitions were far from lofty. “My main hope really, when we set out,” says Murphy, “was that we wouldn’t be embarrassed by it, ...

Janel Leppin cradles the cello close to her soul. You can hear her on recordings by Eyvind Kang, Evangelista, Marissa Nadler, Priests and Janel & Anthony, her duo with guitarist and husband Anthony ...

Marianne had a feeling that paying Johan a surprise visit was a bad idea. But she just had to do it. Three decades had passed since the troubled couple in Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage ...