Avi Avital is the featured performer in "InstaConcerto for Mandolin and Orchestra," a 75-second concerto written for Instagram. Harald Hoffman/Deutsche Grammophon What do you think of when you think ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chris Thile does not try to hide his nervousness about tonight’s world premiere of his first orchestral work. The star mandolinist is all too aware of the ...

NEW YORK — In an experiment that acknowledges the modern era’s shortening attention spans, mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital on Monday launched a concerto for Instagram with movements of 15 seconds. The ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The mandolin has been around for four-plus centuries now, but the instrument never fully captured the imagination of the classical set. Over the years, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mandolinist Chris Thile performs in the West Coast premiere of his "Attention!" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by ...

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

The Romeros, the "Royal Family of the Guitar," have collectively and individually recorded much of the Spanish guitar literature, but they have also delved into related music as well. They recorded an ...

I’d previously encountered pianist Alexandre Kantorow via his exuberant set of Saint-Saëns piano concertos, sparky, lovable performances conducted by his father Jean-Jacques. This solo disc contains ...

Mike Marshall will give the Northwest premiere of his new mandolin concerto, accompanied by the Seattle Mandolin Orchestra, in a concert Monday in Edmonds. “This concert is a rare opportunity to hear ...