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Classical 101You could say Matt Haimovitz does things differently.He abandoned the typical career of a classical cellist early on. Since then, Haimovitz, now on the…
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Classical 101When you think of improvisation in music, you probably think of saxophone lines sailing through the smoke of a jazz club, not cello riffs frilling up a…
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Classical 101Routine is great, but once in a while it’s good to leave the box of familiarity and do something a tad off-plumb.Enter Red Priest.The British baroque…
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Classical 101It’s a busy week for the Carpe Diem String Quartet. All packed into a series of concerts this week here in Columbus, they have the North American premiere…
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Classical 101“I think of her as the Beyoncé of the Baroque.”That’s Early Interval soprano Elizabeth McConnaughey’s take on Barbara Strozzi, a woman who, centuries ago,…
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Classical 101Two brand-new musical works – involving cutting-edge technology and offering commentary on subjects as diverse as a brassy night in Vegas and the wild and…
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Classical 101A classical string quartet covers a Guns N’ Roses hit.Outlandish? Why, yes! But it happened right here in the Classical 101 studio yesterday afternoon,…
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Classical 101If music be the food of love, then you'll probably need something to drink with it. That's in part why violinist Devin Copfer and cellist Elisabeth…
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Classical 101For many instrumentalists, the idea to "sing through your instrument" is just a figure of speech. But for Cleveland-based Ogni Suono saxophone duo, it's…
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Classical 101Earlier today in the Classical 101 studios, madness reigned supreme.Members of the New York City-based modern music collective Tenth Intervention stopped…