It's tough to say who the real star is this weekend at Severance Hall. As the composer of both major works on the program, Bela Bartok is a likely candidate. But so, too, is violist Kim Kashkashian, ...

Popular (people’s) music and classical (art) music are usually thought of as two different planets, orbiting far apart — and bringing them together might seem like mixing oil and water. But more than ...

A few weeks ago, a new CD by the violist Kim Kashkashian arrived in the mail. She plays pieces by Armenian and Israeli composers on the disc, and after popping it into the CD player, I was amazed to ...

On ECM's superb and captivating Rothko Chapel an elite group of musicians interprets Morton Feldman's sublime title piece and several others by John Cage and, the father of western musical modernism, ...

Although Kim Kashkashian is a world-famous violist, the first word that comes to my mind when I hear her name is not "viola," but "lyricism" — that quality of music to be songlike, and to flow easily ...

Time now for your letters. Several of you left comments on our Web site about my colleague Robert Siegel's interview with violist Kim Kashkashian. The titled track on her new CD is "Neharot, Neharot," ...

BETTYE LAVETTE "The Scene of the Crime" (Anti-) 3 stars The crime scene referred to in the title of the new recording by Detroit R&B vocalist Bettye LaVette just happens to be Fame Studios in Muscle ...

Long-running local chamber music outfit Winsor Music demonstrated the meaning of “better late than never” on Thursday evening, as co-artistic directors Gabriela Diaz and Rane Moore welcomed a live ...