Antonio Stradivari made very few violas. Eleven survive to this day. One has just been gifted to the Library of Congress. Maybe it will get taken out to play Happy Birthday to the President. Here’s […]
Today’s the day Sir Simon Rattle blows out 70 candles. Among many tributes, we have selected this beautiful article by Ariane Todes, former editor of Strad magazine, describing what it was like to play in […]
The widely acclaimed ‘father of British blues’ has died aged 90 in California, where he moved in the 1970s. His Bluesbreakers group is remembered chiefly for the couple of years in the mid-1960s when Eric […]