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Strings Stories

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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.

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

    On 'Women' Violinist Esther Abrami Lends Her Voice to a Varied Cast of Underrepresented Composers
    Apr 28 2025

    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’ll have to choose between giving us freedom—or giving us death.”

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    16 Min.
  • Thumb Position: A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique

    Thumb Position: A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique
    Apr 5 2025

    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...

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    10 Min.
  • Cellist and Composer Peter Gregson Creates an Eponymous Album with a Presence

    Cellist and Composer Peter Gregson Creates an Eponymous Album with a Presence
    Mar 15 2025

    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...

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    11 Min.
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