From Audrey Hepburn to Pedro Pascal, cellists have become a movie shorthand for sensitivity, intensity and emotional depth. But why has Hollywood turned one orchestral instrument into a character in ...

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Audience members find their seats before the Yo-Yo Ma concert. The concert was held in the BYU Music Building's concert hall. (Sophia Howcroft) Excited chatter filled the concert hall at the BYU Music ...

Almost every article written about South African cellist, singer and composer Abel Selaocoe starts by calling him "genre-defying". But that's not how he sees his music. "This is not like a fusing of ...

For decades, “By Myself,” the cellist’s defining statement made in 1977, was out of print. Before his 2022 death, he finalized plans for its first-ever re-pressing. By Hank Shteamer In a 1980 ...

What is it? The most resonant voice in the strings section, the cello has been described as the instrument that most closely corresponds to the human vocal range. Who uses it? Symphony orchestras ...

Demonstrating the many facets of the cello - from growling low chords to tripping semiquaver scales in the instrument's sweet high register - Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic ...

Amedeo Baldovino could have panicked. The ship that the cellist was on had caught fire between Uruguay and Argentina, causing him and the other two members of the Trieste Piano Trio to jump into the ...

I was playing piano at the supermarket when a cellist suddenly joined the performance and completely changed the atmosphere around us. What started as a simple musical moment quickly became a ...