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Articles from the pages of Strings Magazine - read aloud by the editor and authors!Strings keeps you informed on the music, musicians, and instruments that matter. Published since 1986, our editors and expert contributors share stories from the vibrant community surrounding stringed instruments. For teachers and students, amateurs and professionals, players of violin, viola, cello, bass, and fiddle, Strings is your magazine.

  1. 28/04/2025

    On 'Women' Violinist Esther Abrami Lends Her Voice to a Varied Cast of Underrepresented Composers

    This story was written by Megan Westberg for the May-June 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by the author. It is an impassioned voice. A raised female voice. “Human life, for us, is sacred,” she says. Music swells beneath her. Bittersweet. Soaring. Rushing in and then retreating. She goes on. “For as we say, if any life is to be sacrificed, it shall be ours.” Orchestral crescendos punctuate her phrases, diminishing on a dime as her voice turns to soprano gravel from shouting. “They’ll have to choose between giving us freedom—or giving us death.”   Support the show

  2. 05/04/2025

    Thumb Position: A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique

    This story was written by Emily Wright for the March-April 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by editor Megan Westberg.  There’s an old Monty Python skit where a husband and wife are discussing what could be scraped together for dessert after a horrendous dinner. The wife begins listing the options: rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, and strawberry tart. The husband is suspicious of the innocent-sounding option, and after a beat, his wife admits there is some rat in the tart... Support the show

  3. 15/03/2025

    Cellist and Composer Peter Gregson Creates an Eponymous Album with a Presence

    This story was written by Megan Westberg for the March-April 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by the author. Sometime around the year 2000, violinist David Harrington of the California-based Kronos Quartet received an email. Its author wasn’t a colleague or a publicist. Or even an adult. This email was, in fact, written by a teenage cellist living roughly 5,000 miles away... Support the show

  4. 13/03/2025

    Multidimensional Imagination: Cellist Abel Selaocoe Continues to Redefine His Approach to the Instrument

    This article was written by Thomas May for the March-April 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by editor Megan Westberg.  “Music is embedded in everything we do in South African life,” says Selaocoe. “Not even only as an artist, but as a member of the public, being able to express yourself musically through the voice or dance has been such an integral part of my growing up.”  Support the show

  5. 11/03/2025

    A Look Inside March-April 2025

    Editor Megan Westberg shares highlights from the latest issue of Strings magazine. Get your copy of the March-April 2025 issue here. It's available in both print and digital editions. And, to be sure you never miss a new issue, why not subscribe? Strings Stories listeners get a special deal. Support the show Support the show

  6. 01/03/2025

    Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry & Rebecca Foon Improvise ‘First Sounds’—An Album 25 Years in the Making

    This story was written by Megan Westberg for the January-February 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by the author... Violinist Sarah Neufeld and cellist Rebecca Foon first met as teenagers at an Ani DiFranco concert. This seems a good place to start, as any discussion of their new album, First Sounds (Envision Records)—on which Neufeld and Foon combine talents with those of multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry—really has to start in the late ’90s, when this trio initially came together. The relationships, you see, came first in the origin story of this project and are inextricably central to it.  Support the show

  7. 27/02/2025

    Violin Maker and Novelist Michael Kearns on His Influences, His Shop, and His Knack for Following His Nose Through Life - Strings Stories

    This story was written by Megan Westberg for the January-February 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by the author.  It exists at a crossroads, violin making. Where living hands take on the work of those who abandoned their tools several centuries before. And from that perspective, it seems fair to say that all violin makers dwell in both the present and the past. That they must, in fact, because Stradivari still firmly guides their movements, peers over their shoulders... Support the show

  8. 08/10/2024

    Ray Chen Finds His Purpose and Makes an Impact

    This story was written by Megan Westberg for the September-October 2024 issue of Strings magazine and is read by the author. I get the sense that violinist Ray Chen is still searching for the right answer—the perfect, succinct media-ready response—to a particular question. Funny thing is, it isn’t a question I’ve asked him. In fact, outside the introductory pleasantries, I haven’t asked him anything at all. He’s calling from the airport in Chicago as he waits for a connecting flight to Los Angeles (delayed) and has thus far wryly chuckled at my suggestion that he may be headed for a break after his recent stint as guest artist at Interlochen Arts Camp (not so much—but he did get a fleeting “pocket of time” to leap into a Michigan lake post-concert the night before). Before I launch into a litany of questions about his upcoming release, Player 1; his practice platform, Tonic; and the general comings and goings of the artist known as Ray Chen, he thinks it may be worth mentioning why it is he routinely ventures outside the box, as it were, in terms of the activities that typically occupy a concert violinist. So he poses the first question himself. Support the show

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Articles from the pages of Strings Magazine - read aloud by the editor and authors!Strings keeps you informed on the music, musicians, and instruments that matter. Published since 1986, our editors and expert contributors share stories from the vibrant community surrounding stringed instruments. For teachers and students, amateurs and professionals, players of violin, viola, cello, bass, and fiddle, Strings is your magazine.

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  • Autoria
    Strings Magazine
  • Anos em atividade
    2023 - 2025
  • Episódios
    24
  • Classificação
    Para todos
  • Copyright
    © 2026 String Letter Publishing, Inc.
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