Despite being feted with two Grammy Awards for best classical crossover album, the members of the 30-year-old Turtle Island String Quartet (TIQ) initially dreaded the label “crossover.” Even as they ...
The cover comes ahead of their new album, due out later in March. By Hannah Dailey Adele and string instruments — a match made in pop music heaven. Known for its classical string covers of popular ...
Classical crossovers have taken Hollywood by storm. One of the musical entities leading the charge is Vitamin String Quartet, which returns to Northeast Ohio for a show on Oct. 24 at EJ Thomas Hall in ...
The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...
When you hear the term “chamber music,” think “string quartets” because most chamber music series consist of about 80 percent string quartet concerts. That might explain why there are so many fine ...
Turtle Island Quartet blends classical quartet form with jazz improvisation. Feb. 26 Singletary program 'Shades of Blue' ...
Quartet Davis joined host Jennifer Hambrick live on Classical 101's Facebook page for a performance and interview. Think you know what a string quartet sounds like? Quartet Davis might have you ...
The album Grażyna Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets recorded by the Silesian String Quartet wins the Gramophone Classical Music Award in the Chamber Music category. The Silesian String Quartet’s ...
Quick — name a jazz string quartet. Classical string quartets are easy enough, thanks to such well-known names as the Juilliard String Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet and the Guarnieri String ...
Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...
The versatile young members of the Ebène Quartet have been pricking up a few ears lately. It's due to their recent genre-twisting album Fiction, in which they indulge their fantasy of functioning not ...
Much in the same way that a garage band comes together to learn and play favorite tunes before perhaps adventuring into writing music of their own, the string quartet was an 18th and 19th century ...