The masters of cello have learned how to wrench mournful, longing sounds from their instruments, with the tug and stab of a bow across the four fat strings. But Erik Friedlander has a different ...

For the first time, fourth- and fifth-grade students at Laguna Beach’s two elementary schools can learn and practice the finer points of orchestra for the whole school year. About 90 students at El ...

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The first known instance of a composer ordering up plucking violins came just three years later. To musician and NPR cultural commentator Miles Hoffman, ...

If you think classical music is stuffy and pretentious, perhaps a few minutes with the London-based string trio Pluck will cure you of that notion. While the three are all classically trained ...

Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je’raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it’s his most recent instrument — cello — that has ...