Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

Cellist Zuill Bailey says he's getting ready to take on two of the biggest and greatest works in the classical repertoire over the next several days in Little Rock. Bailey joins the Arkansas Symphony ...

Which is the greatest cello concerto? Dvorak's often gets the vote. Written toward the end of the composer's sojourn in America, a year after the New York premiere of his "New World" Symphony, it ...

Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s Royal ...

In Esa-Pekka Salonen’s radiant and surprisingly hopeful new Cello Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma is asked to be a combination wave-maker and cloud seeder. What with our winter of drought, those are not unwelcome ...

The program the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is performing this weekend opens, deceptively, with a blast of quintessential ...