Concert to feature violas Nov 19, 2008
"The viola is not the violin or the cello," said Deighton, an associate professor of viola who directs the ensemble. "It doesn't have a history of solo works written for it. I think it's important to build up a repertoire for the viola. It's also important to support the music of our time and to expose it to students," he added. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Wii Will Rock You! Nov 19, 2008
I mean, if I'm only playing virtual cello anyhow, do I really need to be holding something that looks like one. Share this article on Digg. (Slate)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project revisits old images Nov 18, 2008
Elliott Schwartz's "Chamber Concerto VI: Mr. Jefferson," Robert Erickson's "Fantasy" for cello and orchestra, and Martin Boykan's Violin Concerto all exemplified post-World War II mainstream new music: tempered dissonance, rhapsodic rhetoric, arioso-like progressions of atmospheric moods rather than a grand, aria-like line ... Erickson's "Fantasy," an adept balance of neo-classic symmetry and expressionist sensation, was composed in 1954, before the composer embarked down more experimental... (Boston Globe)
Linda Underwood, 65, served on Jekyll, music boards Nov 18, 2008
She would get two violin players and a cello player and they would go to libraries and community centers all over the city, said her husband, Norman Underwood of Atlanta. She made the schedule for professional musicians to play. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Horse feathers, country comfort Nov 18, 2008
Listening to the new album, House With No Home, is like having a bird s-eye view of a lone figure on a vast plain, who warbles the prettiest of melodies, softly picks a guitar and is haunted by an unseen ghostly cello. 9 p.m. Nov. 17. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Concert to aid local composers Nov 18, 2008
On the program are Phil Maher's Fields with Heat, a piece for wind controller and synthesizer; Sophia, a cello solo written by Jesse Lee; Clint McBride's Igneous for guitar; Robert Braun's string quartet, A New Order; Lillian Reichert's Shrill Thrill for flute and piano; Tim Anderson's Bevattna for clarinet, tenor saxophone and piano; Aaron Minnick's The Bard for voice and piano; and one of Bower's own works, Jubiloso for bass clarinet and piano. A raffle of a gift basket from Liquid Planet and... (Missoulian, MT)
* [The weekender] No fiddling around with Wieniawski Nov 17, 2008
The preferred solo instrument was always the piano or the violin X cellos, clarinets and flutes werent considered capable of anything like such heroic possibilities, though Dvorak was to change that with what he came up with for the cello. Wieniawskis work isnt shaped in this mould at all, though. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Destinys Child Nov 17, 2008
You play the cello in the film ... Subhashji was very keen that I practise the cello for a few weeks before the shoot began, with a cello teacher ... Before every take, between the takes, all I would do is go over and over and over the cello. (Calcutta Telegraph)
Naked Brothers Band Review Nov 16, 2008
Guitar and bass are obviously similar, but why is the cello controlled by strumming ... It's like you're playing the cello. (IGN PS2)
Windy’s Winds repairs your brass and woodwind instruments Nov 16, 2008
In high school she started playing cello in the orchestra and became very active with her musical friends ... Shaffer has an array of instruments she owns herself, including a cello, which she plays when asked. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
'Yuvvraaj' starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif: Stills, synopsis Nov 16, 2008
Katrina Kaif, who plays the love interest of in the film, learnt to play Cello for her role. A Cello teacher used to report on the set everyday to teach Katrina the stringed instrument. (South Asian Women's Forum)
A giving thing is terrible to lose Nov 14, 2008
All strings attached Richard Tognetti with the $10 million Giuseppe Guarneri Guarneri "del Gesu" violin and Timo-Veikko Valve with the $1 million cello ... When the Australian Chamber Orchestra takes the City Recital Hall stage tomorrow night to perform Brahms's Double Concerto, all eyes - and ears - will be on Richard Tognetti's Giuseppe Guarneri Guarneri "del Gesu" violin, worth $10 million, and Timo-Veikko Valve's cello, made by the father, Giuseppe Guarneri Guarneri filius Andreae, worth $1... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
At Symphony Hall, echoes of Tanglewood Nov 14, 2008
This week's program seems eager to please, with two popular masterworks - Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony ... The retired BSO cellist Luis Leguia once told a story about rehearsing the Dvorak Cello Concerto on a week that Rostropovich was the scheduled soloist ... So the entire BSO cello section blasted out the famous opening notes of the solo part, and then just kept going, through page after page, playing from memory. (Boston Globe)
Going back to Bartok's musical roots Nov 14, 2008
Prior to hearing the movement, the bassist of Muzsiks plays a melody on a gardon, which Dusinberre describes as a small cello with a percussive sound. "And the sounds that it makes are very similar to the sort of snap pizzicatos that we do on our instruments," he says. (Boston Globe)
Ames Town & Gown presents Prazak Quartet Nov 14, 2008
" Like many young Czechs, he went to a basic art school and was trained on the violin. At the age of 15, students must decide whether they want to attend a conservatory and become professional musicians. Kluson, now 55, decided to study the viola at the Conservatory of Music in Prague and went on to attend the Academy of Fine Arts. He co-founded the Prazak Quartet with Josef Prazak in 1972, while the two studied together at the conservatory. The quartet won the prestigious Evan International... (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
Continuum offers up taste of Dutch treat Nov 13, 2008
But Bouchard lost me when she cut the motor and let the piece drift on portentous utterances from piano, violin and cello. Martin Arnold's Moonlight on the Bluff sounded like a folk ballad that had been exploded and reassembled in a way that retained some of the features of the original (including the characteristically English rhythm of words such as "never"). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
* [EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT] Nov 13, 2008
Classical music Ouyang Ling-yi and Su Meng-feng Cello and Guitar Duo Recital (DyBs j^PNLG), brings cellist Ouyang Ling-yi (Dy), who graduated from the doctoral program in music from Michigan State University, East Lansing and Su Meng-feng (s), a 2005 winner in the UFAM International Classical Guitar Competition, together in two concerts this week to perform a program that includes the Taiwan premiere of Ourkouzounovs Tanzologia, Fallas Cinqo Canciones... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
SUBMITTED PHOTOThe Tucson Symphony String Quartet (from left) Carla Ecker, Ellen Chamberlain, Ilona Vukovic-Gay and Mary Beth Tyndall will be in concert this Sunday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m. at Desert Hills Lutheran Church in Green Valley. \0\0 Nov 12, 2008
Performing will be Carla Ecker and Ellen Chamberlain, violins; Ilona Vukovic-Gay, viola; and Mary Beth Tyndall, cello. The quartet will open the program with Franz Joseph Haydn s String Quartet Op. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
WU music faculty play for small but enthused audience Nov 10, 2008
Elizabeth MacDonald, director of strings and cello teacher at the University, performed a Romantic piece by Clara Rogers, an English composer whose work dates from the turn of the century. The concert was a huge success, MacDonald said. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
Whiz Kids From New Jersey and Massachusetts Honored for Computer Science and Biology Research in Nation's Premier High School Science Competition Nov 9, 2008
Mr. Metsky serves as the front page/news section editor of The Miller, his school's newspaper, enjoys mentoring math, running cross country and playing the cello in his school Orchestra. His mentors were Dr. Nizar Habash, Associate Research Scientist Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University, and Dr. Paul Citrin, science teacher and advisor in Millburn High School's science research program. (PR Newswire)
Attention Long Overdue Nov 8, 2008
He formed a couple of bands, like the Flying Hearts, with Ernie Brooks of the Modern Lovers; worked with musicians such as David Byrne, Philip Glass and Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads; and worked with poet Allen Ginsberg, accompanying his readings on cello. You wouldn't expect a famous disco label's first hit to come from a cellist, but Sire Records hit the charts with "Kiss Me Again," with Russell performing under the name Dinosaur. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Italian violinist brings his 'voice' to Sioux City Nov 7, 2008
Although he stopped short of classifying his family as "musically-inclined," Hadelich said his grandfather was a professional cellist and his two older brothers played cello and piano. "They got me interested in music and I wanted to start playing right away," he recalled. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Bach highlights Yogyakarta music fest Nov 7, 2008
A small chamber orchestra, including Anna-Theresa Steckel on the violin (who is currently studying at the prestigious Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin); Stephan Rahn, one of Germany's promising piano players and a lecturer at Hanns Eisler Music Academy; and Julian Steckel, prize winner of many international cello competitions. Others include Anton Isselhardt, Cambodia's country-director of the ART+ foundation and ex-flutist at the State Philharmonic Orchestra, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany;... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Events calendar Nov 7, 2008
The program includes Haydn "Trio in D" for flute, cello and piano; Beethoven "Theme and Variations" for oboe, violin and viola; and Mozart "Piano Quartet in E-flat Major." The ensemble was founded in 1957 and has been in residence at the Vermont Mozart Festival since 1974. Tickets, 12, are available at 496-2230 or. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Fort Worth Symphony makes second Southlake appearance Nov 7, 2008
The concert will feature 65 musicians playing Soro s Danza Fantastica, the first movement of Dvorak s cello concerto in B minor, Opus 104 and Beethoven s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Opus 92 ... A TCU cello soloist, Hyung-Joo Kim will also be featured during the concert. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Elgar Festival: Program One Nov 5, 2008
ELGAR'S Cello Concerto and First Symphony share a common feature in that they both end with the idea with which they began ... The First Symphony from 1908 ends in a spirit of audacious hope but the Cello Concerto from about a decade later, at the close of World War I, manages to wrest only sadness from the transformation, as memories of the slow movement infiltrate the momentum. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Love a man with power? Nov 5, 2008
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Johann Sebastian Bach (cello suites), and The Fugees. Reading. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* Despite gloom, modern art booms Nov 5, 2008
That fear also was evident in an online auction last week when a 1717 Stradivari cello reached a record bid of US$1. 35 million but failed to reach its estimated value of US$1. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
OneRepublic gives good, not great show at McLeod Nov 5, 2008
Guitarist Zach Filkins tackled a formidable Spanish-influenced guitar solo; uber-talented Brent Kutzle added a haunting cello line to "All Fall Down"; and Drew Brown earned applause for a flawless guitar part in "Apologize.". But the band's founder --- frontman Ryan Tedder --- remained unimpressive. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
All-State music participants named Nov 4, 2008
Cedar Falls orchestra members Hannah Howland, Riley Martin, Vanessa Horstman, Amelia Sutton and Erik Olsen (Holmes Junior High) for violin; Elizabeth Bailey (Holmes) for viola; Olivia Hahn and Francisco Villavicencio for cello; and Jakob Stoner for bass. Choir members Ali Stoddard, Alice Miller, Natalie Takes and Ashley Mason for soprano; Catherine Dunbar, Samantha Takes and Ebony Kunkle for alto; Sam Lilja, Joe Fagersten and Dan Veenstra for tenor; Ben Ulfers, Chris Bowden, Ben Fagersten, Mason... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Antony and the Johnsons, Barbican, London Nov 3, 2008
Little space is left for some of the subtleties of Hegarty's musical turns, his quiet steps from major to minor, but for each dodged nuance, a rapping rhythm bashed out on the body of a cello or an orchestral full pelt takes its place. But it's Hegarty who grabs the spotlight. (Independent)
Waaksaam & Wakker Nov 2, 2008
While Van Coke (vocals and guitar), Wynand Myburgh (bass guitar) and Justin Kruger (drums) ply their individual trades in cohesive, customary, indomitable fashion, noteworthy progression comes in the form of Hammond organ in 'Raad Vanuit Twee Oorde' and 'Pynstiller', accordion in 'Wat Het Van Ons Geword', and cello in 'Ons Moet Hardloop' as talented session musicians Dave Sharp, Sergio Ramzolli and Lara Block respectively lend their talents to the second instalment of the heaving Van Coke Kartel... (iAfrica.com)
'Peter and the Wolf' Nov 1, 2008
" Trostel said he also chose the complex piece because he believes the Student Symphony is ready for the challenge. "It is a stretch, but a reasonable and fertile endeavor," he said. In addition to "Peter and the Wolf," Ethan Seid, winner of the Juneau Symphony Youth Concerto Competition, junior division, will be play the first movement of Bach's first violin concerto. "This is a lovely piece full of the energy of the age of our soloist and full of the excitement of the emerging musicians in the... (Juneau Empire)
Go & Do - Romantic piano in Exeter, Air Force band in Portsmouth Nov 1, 2008
Performers Mary Towse-Beck, piano; Jennifer Jameson-Kelly, violin; Sarah Barker, violin; Joanna Cyrus, viola; and Dorothy Braker, cello, are a collaboration of Aliento Chamber Players with the Philharmonic Chamber Players. This concert is the third in Aliento Chamber Players' new "never-ending" concert series on the first Sunday of each month (with the exception of Dec. '08) at Christ Episcopal Church. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
More of this story Nov 1, 2008
Kao performs "a very small part" on piano, Huie shakes maracas, and Kuroda plays the woodblock, but plenty of other actors in the show are trained musicians, bringing Nathan Wang's original score to life with the cello, recorder and piano. In the film, music sets the tone from the beginning. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
OneRepublic builds on early success with new material for McLeod crowd Oct 31, 2008
"The first two songs, 'Stop and Stare' and 'Apologize,' were so big that it was sort of tough to get the rest of the album out there," said Brent Kutzle, who plays cello and bass with the band. "We wanted people to hear those other songs.". (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
The perfect images for a unique musician Oct 30, 2008
And both get amazingly close to capturing the strange emotional essence of Russell's music - cello, drum loops, and his bashful vocals ricocheting against various backdrops of sonic detritus. Russell died of AIDS in 1992. (Boston Globe)
Killers' Day & Age Preview: Hungry Like The Wolf, In Bigger Than The Sound Oct 30, 2008
" The song opens into a great starry space, then collapses back in on itself with more horns and spindly, spy-movie guitars. "A Dustland Fairytale" is next, a somber, sepia-toned tune reportedly about Flowers' parents. Featuring plinking piano and mournful cello, it builds to a powerful, soaring crescendo, and coupled with Flowers' Americana-obsessed lyrics (plenty of mentions of "blue-jean serenades," "party dress"-clad damsels and "Kodachrome prints"), it's perhaps the album's only song that... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Showcasing the allure of the cello Oct 29, 2008
For some composers, the cello is a high-maintenance mistress. Francis Poulenc sketched his cello sonata in 1940, but took another eight years to finish it; Frederic Chopin struggled with his G minor cello sonata, telling his sister "I write a little and cross out a lot." But they persevere; as Prokofiev admitted to Mstislav Rostropovich, "I am fascinated by your crazy instrument." On Sunday, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk included Chopin, Poulenc - and, indirectly, Rostropovich... (Boston Globe)
* [CLASSICAL DVD REVIEWS] Oct 29, 2008
For her part, Sol Gabetta offers a strenuous Shostakovich disc containing two works, his dolorous Cello Concerto No. 2 and his Cello Sonata. The former, a live performance, is with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the latter with pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Jesse Cook is a gypsy at heart Oct 29, 2008
While he plays largely in the rumba flamenco style, he also blends in elements as varied as African percussion, Cajun accordion, classical cello and pop vocals. To date, he has released six critically acclaimed albums that combine flamenco guitar with musical traditions from all over the world. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Critic's picks - classical music Oct 26, 2008
The season in Andover continues tomorrow with a benefit program featuring prominent players in selected movements from Dvorak's Cello Concerto, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, and Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez." Participating soloists include Miriam Fried (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Max Levinson (piano), Andres Diaz (cello), and Jason Vieaux (guitar) ... The season in Andover continues tomorrow with a benefit program featuring prominent players in... (Boston Globe)
Good music, fun times Oct 25, 2008
He planned to limit enrollment at 15 children, but when twice that many participants signed up, he found a cello teacher to help expand the camp. "What that tells me is there's a lot of hunger for learning about music here," Park said. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Meet Yankton College grad Nancy Lenehan Oct 24, 2008
Now, she's learning to play cello ... But, if anyone needs a mom who can play a cello and quilt, Lenehan's ready. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Juneau Symphony presents a ghoulish gala Oct 24, 2008
GETTING ready: A skeleton 'practices' the cello during a rehearsal for the upcoming Juneau Symphony's Ghoulish Gala. The symphony's music director, Kyle Wiley Picket, is pictured below in costume getting ready for the performance. (Juneau Empire)
Warm welcome Oct 24, 2008
A few metres down the road, the strains of a cello resonate through a large, comfortable villa ... " Economic migrants Like hundreds of Slovaks now living in Austria, Prof Podhoransky still commutes to work. Monika Haklova says nearly all of her clients in Austria are Slovaks On a good day the 10km (six miles) drive from Wolfsthal to Bratislava's Academy of Performing Arts takes just 12 minutes. Before Schengen, Slovak-registered cars and buses were sometimes held up for hours by Austrian border... (BBC News -- Europe)
Salman and Katzs chemistry! Oct 24, 2008
But it is English rose Katrina, whose shots with hair made up like royalty and playing the cello will make any man weak in the knees. The AR Rahman song is a sensation too. (Times of India)
BHS students prepare for all-state music auditions Oct 24, 2008
Meanwhile in the instrumental arena, students from Boone are auditioning to play the flute, B-flat clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, percussion, violin, viola, cello and string bass for the all-state band or orchestra. The number of orchestra students selected that audition in Atlantic range from 1-2 students per instrument, while band accepts a few more entrants depending on the instrument. (Mid Iowa Enterprise, IA)
Artaria quartet to perform at WSU Oct 24, 2008
The quartet features violinists Nancy Oliveros and Ray Shows, Laura Sewell on cello and Annalee Wolf on viola. The concert will feature works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich and Jean Sibelius. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Lindsay Mac and Natalia Zukerman Oct 23, 2008
On a new album, "Stop Thinking," Mac's wild-eyed cello propels pop-catchy, city-smart songs. Zukerman's guitar is a strutting brass band one minute, a sighing lover the next. (Boston Globe)
The Mountain Goats: Heretic Pride Oct 23, 2008
The violins and cello swoop around the rapidly plucked guitar strings and John's vocals like so much blood through a rapidly pulsing heart. These characters find solace and definition in their own solitude, in the way they wall themselves off from the world into which they hesitantly bring their new child. (Suite101.com)
The Air This Week Oct 21, 2008
2 p.m. Dmitry Yablonski/Holland Symfonia: Carter Cello Concerto (Gary Hoffman), Elgar Cello Concerto (Franz Helmerson), Prokofiev "Romeo and Juliet" Suite, Lutoslawski Cello Concerto (Colin Carr) (Netherlands Radio 4: radio4. nl). (Boston Globe)
Naked Brothers Ships Oct 21, 2008
Throughout the game, players will have the opportunity to utilize a microphone to sing along to up to 25 of their favorite Naked Brothers Band songs, or play all the instruments that appear on the TV show, including drums, guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and cello. For a limited time, special editions of the game will also include a Logitech Vantage microphone in-pack. (IGN PS2)
'Self renewing' piece is high point of dance concert Oct 21, 2008
Her initial stretch from a bent position reflected the solo cello accompaniment ... A second work for solo dancer, set to solo cello music by Bach, was on the program: Sullivan's "In a Different Light," which saw the light of day last year. (Anchorage Daily News)
USC Symphony says hello to cello Oct 21, 2008
D;az will perform Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major, a very exciting piece that contains high register and double stop passages ... D;az, born in Chile, began to study cello at the age of five ... D;az won first prize in the 1986 Naumburg International Cello Competition and gained a reputation for intense and charismatic performances. (Gamecock Online, SC)
Post First Comment Oct 21, 2008
USC Symphony says hello to cello - The Mix ... USC Symphony says hello to cello ... D;az will perform Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major, a very exciting piece that contains high register and double stop passages. (Gamecock Online, SC)
Go & Do - A 'Haunted Hampton' whodunnit Oct 21, 2008
Simons and Teplitsky will perform Beethoven Sonata No. 3 in A Major for Cello and Piano, op. 69, Debussy Sonate pour Violoncello et Piano in D Minor and Schnittke Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1978), among others. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
South Church's Music Series offers variety of concerts Oct 20, 2008
Requiro is one of the country's most promising young cellists who, at age 23, has already captured first prizes in the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's International Violoncello Competition, the National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloists' Competition and the Irving M. Klein and Washington International String Competitions ... Chamber music has found a home at the Music Series, and on April 19 at 4 p.m., the South Church Chamber Society returns with a concert featuring pianist David Westfall,... (New Britain Herald, CT)
World Doctors Orchestra to make U.S. debut at Severance Hall in February Oct 19, 2008
For the Cleveland performance, Willich -- director of the Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the Charite University Medical Center in Berlin -- will lead Copland's "An Outdoor Overture," Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano and Brahms' Symphony No. 1. The soloists in the Beethoven will be admired musicians with Cleveland ties: Annie Fullard, first violinist of the Cavani String Quartet; cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, a soloist, chamber musician and... (Cleveland.com)
'Celtic' taps into worlds of rhythm Oct 18, 2008
At one point, the North Carolina native plucked a bluesy funk number on a violin pitched down into cello range, and you'd swear he was playing guitar. Then just as quickly, he launched into licks from "Flight of the Bumblebee," Devine's taps matching every bow stroke. (Boston Globe)
Adventurer Scientist Julie Angus on... Oct 18, 2008
I have been playing the cello for a few years but, sadly, off-key Christmas carols are the limit of my repertoire. My favourite expressive pastime is cooking. (Suite101.com)
Breaking down the boundaries: Yehuda Hanani opens his 17th season in the Berkshires Oct 18, 2008
The program consists of Baroque and Classical works for chamber orchestra and soloists, including music of Franz Joseph Haydn (Cello Concerto in D major) and Johann Sebastian Bach (Double Concerto for Two Violins) along with Italian gems from Corelli and Vivaldi, all of it written for the courts of Hapsburg and Esterhazy and the palaces of Saxony and Venice ... He has appeared in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, premiering works by such... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Grace students learning strings Oct 18, 2008
CELLO PLAYERS, Grant McDonald, left and Colby Swicord, right, demonstrate their techniques ... There are 13 violin students, three playing viola and two on cello in the initial group ... The two boys playing cello, the largest of the instruments taught at Grace, are Grant McDonald and Colby Swicord. (Bainbridge Post Searchlight, GA)
Critics' Picks Oct 18, 2008
Salon Critics' Picks: PalinAsPresident. Site Presented By Saturday, Oct 18, 2008. (Salon)
Live music picks Oct 17, 2008
Bluegrass to Beijing: It s a measure of singing banjo player Washburn s talent that her quartet consists of high-caliber players Ben Sollee on cello and fiddler Casey Driessen along with seven-time Grammy winner Bela Fleck on banjo. The fall edition of the now semi-annual No Depression magazine calls it a bluegrass jazz gospel Chinese-American string quartet. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
