Goethe once compared a string quartet to a conversation among “four rational people,” and the phrase serves as the title for a new documentary about the Emerson String Quartet, one of the most ...

With even his stern face and wild artist's hair as iconic as his music, it’s not easy to remember that Ludwig van Beethoven was once a struggling up-and-comer. But at the end of the 18 th century and ...

Summer is the season when chamber music, that most intimate of musical genres, meets the great outdoors. At America’s destination festivals, you can find chambers by sea (La Jolla SummerFest), in the ...

The high, delicate, exacting art of chamber music has no finer practitioners today than the Budapest String Quartet. Last week, deep in one of their busiest seasons, the Quartet was in Manhattan, ...

The newly renamed East Aurora Chamber Music Festival (EACMF) has begun its traditional series of four concerts, as in the past at St. Matthias’ Episcopal Church (kitty corner across Main from the ...

When four top film studio musicians formed the Hollywood String Quartet in the late 1930s, its name was presumed an oxymoron. Exalted string quartet devotees belittled film soundtracks, while studio ...

To spend time with the members of the Spokane String Quartet is to be witness to a very long, very comfortable relationship. Members of the group — cellist Helen Byrne, second violinist Amanda ...