When Bob Dylan sang that "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying" on his epochal 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home," he could have been talking about the precarious dynamic that either keeps a ...

The Brodsky String Quartet's collaboration with yidaki player William Barton was let down by a disjointed program.

When Bob Dylan sang that "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying" on his epochal 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home," he could have been talking about the precarious dynamic that either keeps a ...

From his visit to NPR in 2002, early-music string virtuoso Hopkinson Smith performs music first published in 16th-Century France for solo lute. He also talks with NPR's Fred Child about the instrument ...

The sound of the violin has often been compared to that of the human voice; but as string virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin once pointed out, nothing can interrupt the violin’s melody, “not even breathing.” ...