Vivaldi was known to have benefited from several great violinists where he worked, at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. One in particular, by the name of Anna Maria, was the dedicatee of more than ...

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Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

Venice is a city particularly associated with the mandolin, an instrument often accompanying nocturnal serenades and performances of Canzoni da Battello (songs from a boat or gondola) sung by, and ...

Even if you are a hardcore classical music junkie, you've probably never been to a solo mandolin recital. Let's face it, mandolins are the black sheep of musical instruments, either confined to ...

Xuefei Yang performing the Concierto de Aranjuez in Barcelona, 2008 Every Saturday and Wednesday evening at 7, Classical 101 presents Fretworks for music of the classical guitar. On the program this ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The GRAMMY-nominated Israeli mandolinist Avi ...

From Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to his opera L’Olimpiade, here are some of the Baroque composer’s finest pieces of music. Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi may have been born over 340 years ago, but his ...

Orchestra Hall will swell with baroque precision April 25-27 when the Detroit Symphony Orchestra celebrates "Vivaldi's Gloria," with four works by one of the classical canon's biggest crowd-pleasers.

More than virtually any other instrument, the mandolin stands for different things depending on time and place. In the 18th century it was the preserve of the wealthy in salons across Europe; by the ...

Rakish Israeli musician Avi Avital is widely heralded for placing the diminutive mandolin — an American stalwart of bluegrass music — firmly in the classical realm. He’s accomplished this most notably ...