From Audrey Hepburn to Pedro Pascal, cellists have become a movie shorthand for sensitivity, intensity and emotional depth. But why has Hollywood turned one orchestral instrument into a character in ...

Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...

The cello player on Nirvana's 1993 swan song In Utero has spoken publicly for the first time in a new interview, revealing her interactions with late Nirvana bandleader Kurt Cobain. Though cellist ...

In January, 2022, the British cellist Steven Isserlis was walking to a professional engagement when catastrophe struck. The skies opened. Isserlis was holding the three-hundred-year-old cello he ...

As a cellist, I suffer a lot, and a large proportion of my sufferings are caused by the remarks I have to endure on an all-too-frequent basis. I now have a T-shirt with text that deals with some of ...

While playing the piano, I met a talented cellist whose expressive playing immediately transformed the performance into ...

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