These days, the string quartet as an ensemble is a tried and true form of chamber music, but it’s only within the past three ...

Ralph Fiennes delivers an animated performance of the T.S. Eliot works, but the film doesn’t quite succeed in bringing the stage into the cinema. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Coronavirus has given me the opportunity to catch up—to write about exhibitions, performances, books, that I had meant to address but that slipped by until Coronavirus got in the way. I feel like ...

Listening to Quartets for Plucked Strings without knowing its backstory poses no obstacle. The music invites you to follow your imagination. Sean Ali, best known as a bassist, composer, and improviser ...

Chick Corea’s Three Quartets is an album I owned on the original LP release (1981). It was eventually re-released on CD, with the addition of four tracks recorded during the same session, although ...

When it came to lockdown projects at the start of the pandemic, reassessing and reorganizing one’s possessions was a clear favorite. Ralph Fiennes’ version befit a consummate actor who’d long ...

Both quartets on Quartets include pianist Leslie Pintchik, bassist Scott Hardy and drummer Mark Dodge. One quartet extends its percussion section with Satoshi Takeishi, who played drums and percussion ...

Moving through the stories of many lives told in myriad ways: This is what it feels like to spend time with Steve Reich's three innovative and profound string quartets. It's even more powerful to hear ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Think of what we lost as a result of Brahms’s self-critical demand for perfection. We have a better idea now of ...

Lansing — A barbershop quartet, named Renaissance, visited the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday, singing outside the House chamber and defending state funding that supports arts and culture programs. House ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, written just before and during World War II as meditations on humanity's relationship with time. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ...