When Bob Dylan sang that "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying" on his epochal 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home," he could have been talking about the precarious dynamic that either keeps a ...

When Bob Dylan sang that "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying" on his epochal 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home," he could have been talking about the precarious dynamic that either keeps a ...

The Brodsky String Quartet's collaboration with yidaki player William Barton was let down by a disjointed program.

The sound of the violin has often been compared to that of the human voice; but as string virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin once pointed out, nothing can interrupt the violin’s melody, “not even breathing.” ...

The music on the String Orchestra of the Rockies concert this Sunday spans time and place, from 1822 in Germany to 2005 in Oregon. It’s also been two years’ wait for Stephanie Chase, an award-winning ...

From his visit to NPR in 2002, early-music string virtuoso Hopkinson Smith performs music first published in 16th-Century France for solo lute. He also talks with NPR's Fred Child about the instrument ...

Kissin returns newly married, after a sabbatical from his yearly U.S. performances. With this special chamber music venture that pairs Carnegie Hall's darling with a formal string ensemble for the ...