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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...