From its birth, Laguna Beach’s 3-year-old Chamber Music Festival has been an experiment in innovation. Create, from thin air, a nationally respected annual venue for chamber music in a town not ...

Whatever doubts conductor Riccardo Sahiti had about his Roma and Sinti Philharmonic were laid to rest during this concert. He praised the violin and double bass soloists here as being at the top of ...

The Seattle Chamber Music Festival, which opens its 23rd season Monday night at Lakeside School, may be based in Seattle, but the three dozen or so musicians who appear there every summer are rarely ...

The double bass. Everyone knows the double bass—it goes "boom, boom, boom." Sometimes, to paraphrase Sophia Loren, it goes "boom, boody, boom." In the hands of a virtuoso it does so much more than ...

We all know what a violin is, but what about a 10-string double violin? Gingger Shankar says that it covers all the ranges offered by the double bass, cello, viola and violin. The grand niece of ...

An upright or double bass provides the lowest tones in an orchestra, but also can play the rhythmic background to a jazz improvisation or the solid foundation of a bluegrass song. It can be played ...

North Yorkshire Police are appealing for information about two musical instruments that were stolen near Darlington. The theft happened in the Barton area of Richmondshire in January this year and the ...