Strings Stories

About Strings Stories

Articles from the pages of Strings Magazine - read aloud by the editor and authors! Strings keeps you informed on the music, musicians, and instruments that matter. Published since 1986, our editors and expert contributors share stories from the vibrant community surrounding stringed instruments. For teachers and students, amateurs and professionals, players of violin, viola, cello, bass, and fiddle, Strings is your magazine.

Publisher

Strings Magazine

Category

arts · music · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Oct 2023

Latest episode

28 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Apr 2025

   On 'Women' Violinist Esther Abrami Lends Her Voice to a Varied Cast of Underrepresented Composers

   This story was written by Megan Westberg for the May-June 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by the author. It is an impassioned voice. A raised female voice. “Human life, for us, is sacred,” she says. Music swells beneath her. Bittersweet. Soaring. Rushing in and then retreating. She goes on. “For as we say, if any life is to be sacrificed, it shall be ours.” Orchestral crescendos punctuate her phrases, diminishing on a dime as her voice turns to soprano gravel from shouting. “They’l...

2. 

   5 Apr 2025

   Thumb Position: A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique

   This story was written by Emily Wright for the March-April 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by editor Megan Westberg. There’s an old Monty Python skit where a husband and wife are discussing what could be scraped together for dessert after a horrendous dinner. The wife begins listing the options: rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, and strawberry tart. The husband is suspicious of the innocent-sounding option, and after a beat, his wife admits there is some rat in the tart... S...

3. 

   15 Mar 2025

   Cellist and Composer Peter Gregson Creates an Eponymous Album with a Presence

   This story was written by Megan Westberg for the March-April 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by the author. Sometime around the year 2000, violinist David Harrington of the California-based Kronos Quartet received an email. Its author wasn’t a colleague or a publicist. Or even an adult. This email was, in fact, written by a teenage cellist living roughly 5,000 miles away... Support the show

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5.0 / 5

1 ratings

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5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

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Social presence

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YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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