At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...
The lowest string instrument in the world plays some very low, very mellow Mozart, thanks to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has just become the only ensemble in the ...
Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...