Handel & Haydn Society play Mozart and Haydn this weekend Walk into most music shops and the violins hanging on the wall will be strung with steel strings. The highest string on the violin (the E) is particularly prone to sounding metallic when improperly played (think horror-film screech.) Back in Mozart’s day, though, […]
REVISITING A FAR CRY
With new grant, Boston’s guerilla chamber orchestra plots orchestral future Michael Unterman is a professional concert cellist, but his morning routine is decidedly computer-based. Most days, the musician goes straight to his laptop to answer emails and write blog posts and program notes. As a member of the Boston chamber orchestra A Far […]
