A movie last year called A Late Quartet told 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 ...

The Dutch artist M.C Escher, from whom this year's Austin Chamber Music Festival quartet-in-residence draws inspiration, was known for his ability to take individual components and weave them into ...

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 ...

Blending the famous and the unfamiliar. That's the objective of the Harrington String Quartet's 33rd season, which opens this week. "Every concert contains a well-known masterwork as well as a piece ...

WGBH has hosted many string quartets in its performance studio. Hear three of the best, playing music by Joseph Haydn. Two hundred years ago — May 31, 1809, to be exact — Joseph Haydn died at age 76.

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 ...