Taking a deep dive into Bach's Preludio, with the extraordinary violinist and pedagogue, Brian Lewis. From last summer's virtual Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School.
Live music was an incredibly effective way remember the anniversary of 9/11 over the weekend. Here is Laurie Niles' review of Jacaranda Music's "Twin Towers" tribute concert, featuring the Lyris Quartet.
After 300 years of playing this staple of the repertoire, you'd think violinists might come to a consensus about how to start the "Preludio" from Bach's Partita No. 3 in E major. But we haven't! Do you like to start it up-bow, or down-bow? And why?