Kenneth Goldsmith’s 1690 Albanus violin. Photo by St. John Flynn. This evening at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, faculty and students present “Sharing the Spotlight,” a recital of works ...

You’ve probably heard the mandolin, but you may NOT have heard music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on the mandolin. Avi Avital wants to change that. Hear Avi Avital play his arrangement of one of ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from CM iPad section Qld Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. "My dad played in the Queensland Mandolin Orchestra and I would go along with him to ...

To the untrained eye, the instruments look more or less the same: long neck, shapely body, strings and a bow. But when Nayeon Kim and Jurrian van der Zanden take the stage Tuesday evening, they will ...

Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare strings ...