Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of John Cage for "How to Listen" series by Mark Swed. Credit: Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times (Micah Fluellen / ...

Emerson String Quartet performing in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood on Aug. 14, 2013. (Photo by HIlary Scott, courtesy of Tanglewood) LENOX - String quartets have to be ...

Wednesday at the Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) was a long haul of repetition, three Ravel quartets and three Brahms quartets. It was also a time for individual standout ...

How do a string quartet pursue their dream of the ideal ensemble sound? James Jolly caught up with the Carducci Quartet to learn about how they went about it I’ve never given a lot of thought as to ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

A good week for the music of Kenneth Leighton was crowned with a performance of his early but still gripping String Quartet No 2 on Sunday. Dating from 1957, when Vaughan Williams was still Britain's ...

Newbury Spring Festival 2026: Young Artists Recital, Fibonacci Quartet at the Corn Exchange on Wednesday, May 20.

If chamber music can be compared to a rewarding discussion, then about 250 people were privy to a memorable conversation Wednesday night. One of the world’s great string quartets, Russia’s Borodin ...

At the finals of the 1927 Southern California Oratorical Contest, an idealistic Los Angeles High School senior delivered the winning speech on the newly erected (and short-lived) Lloyd Wright ...