A movie last year called A Late Quartettold the traumatic story of what happens when a famous string quartet has to change personnel. But, in fact, most string quartets — like symphony orchestras, ...

The university can be a dangerous place for art-makers, because its security blunts the risks of failure. Often art in the academy has lost its highs and lows. But first-rate artists do sometimes ...

The Rolston Quartet. Photo courtesy of the Rolston Quartet. The Rolston Quartet, the new quartet-in-residence at Rice University’s Shepherd School, presents a recital Sunday afternoon at the MFAH in ...

The Rolston String Quartet. Photo courtesy of the Rolston Quartet. The Aperio, Music of the Americas chamber series begins its season Sunday with “American Dreams,” the first Houston recital by the ...

Willy Porter is a busy man these days, doing everything from teaching his 7-year-old son to play the guitar to working with a world famous string quartet to provide a new layer of music to some of his ...

One reason that Washington D.C., not otherwise the most fertile ground for culture, has long been one of the greatest chamber music towns in the world was the presence of not one, but two! famous and ...

The Fab Four of classical music are to be no more. The Emerson String Quartet are calling it quits, their last Boston gig coming Jan. 22 at Jordan Hall. It might be a stretch to call them the Beatles ...

Recently reissued Brahms and Mozart recordings by the Stuyvesant Quartet convey natural refinement, balance and a kind of inward grace. Fresh Air... A Forgotten Quartet, Reissued And Reevaluated A ...