When the cello section of the San Francisco Symphony finished a particularly tricky passage in Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s new Symphony No. 2 during rehearsal last week, the rest of the orchestra burst ...

The 2Cellos are known for their fiery performances on a classical instrument. It turns out the hot young Croatians can wield a paint brush as well, something they demonstrated with a half cello they ...

There are times when a performance seems so right that you feel the players have somehow restored order to a random universe — or, at least, to one fortunate little corner of it. Thursday night’s ...

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Antonin Dvorak composed “Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Minor” in 1894. But the cello on which this piece will be played on Saturday and Sunday, April 9–10, in Grand Junction is older than that ...

Julian Schwarz returns to the Tucson Symphony Orchestra to solo on a pair of works this weekend, then he's sticking around to ...

The classically trained Croatian duo 2 Cellos made a name for themselves for imaginatively rearranging modern songs. They were the first instrumentalists to be featured on “Glee” and they appeared ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Little was exchanged between composer and percussionist Andy Akiho and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler on ...

Spectrum Orchestra welcomes the public to the final concert of its 2024-2025 season at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, at Bloomfield Hills High School, 4200 Andover Road, Bloomfield Township. The concert ...

The Oregon Symphony's Nancy Ives. (Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand) Nancy Ives, principal cello ( Torsten Kjellstrand) After centuries of playing second fiddle to the flashy violin, then decades being ...