The cello is a very fine instrument - just ask Yo-Yo Ma - but it has some fundamental weaknesses. The most obvious one is that there's no way to play more than two of its four strings simultaneously.
Local music lovers are now enjoying a period of unprecedented great cello concerts. A few weeks ago famed cellist Alisa Weilerstein gave a stunning recital at Wharton Center, playing three Bach ...
He could have shoved it in a corner or tucked it away in the attic. He could have sold it to a friend down the street or a stranger on a shopping website. But Dave Kellner, of Riegelsville, decided to ...
As though the COVID-19 pandemic had never happened, bringing the normal patterns of life, and particularly those of the performing arts, to an eerie and threatening standstill, Zuill Bailey is back to ...
One of Carol Critelli’s most rebellious acts has been bringing her pleasure for half a century. Just before she started seventh grade in the 1940s, Critelli swapped her violin for a cello. When she ...
It's the first time in music history a robot has performed such a feat, according to composer Jacob Muhlrad. Combining industrial robotic arms with 3D-printed parts, the robot cello was designed and ...
On October 17, a two-armed robot played cello onstage in southern Sweden with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, an event that Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad calls the first of its kind. The robot ...