Some valuable things are chucked out on the road of progress. Although they faded from general use in the Baroque, the once-popular viola da gamba and always-obscure viola d'amore make sounds that ...

Violinist David Felberg bought a viola and designed a program. The Albuquerque native, co-founder of Chatter, a chamber music group, and Santa Fe Symphony concertmaster will perform on the solo violin ...

Moments before Garth Knox was about to play a work of his own creation titled "Misfortune strikes me," it did. A string on his viola d'amore snapped, prompting the Irish-born musician to reorder the ...

Two highly unusual experiences are coming up, promised Jonathan Pasternack, artistic director and conductor of the Port Angeles Symphony Chamber Orchestra. For one, a daughter of Clallam County who ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Three 20th-century sonatas, including one for the seldom-played viola d’amore, are featured on Chatter’s first ...

Viola d’amore, or the viola of love. Violinist Rachel Barton Pine makes this 12-string Baroque-era instrument come alive with a sweet, resonant tone in a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, today on 91.1, ...

Concerto for Flute, Oboe d'amore, Viola d'amore an Bell'Arte Salzburg Annegret Siedel, Viola d amore Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer Overture Bell'Arte Salzburg (Johann) Christoph Graupner, Composer ...

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The symphony orchestra has changed mostly by growing, adding more and more instruments. Trombones, which had been around a long time, became prominent in the symphonies of Beethoven and the operas of ...

Kissing is better in February; music is better heard live. Add songs about kisses to a grouping of instruments perhaps never heard before in Bloomington, and a lovers' concert will burst forth at 4:30 ...