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MAY 2004
Issue
119
 A
Stand-Up Guy
For jazz bassist
Ron Carter, it's all about helping others sound their best. By Dan
Ouellette.
Focus
on Young Players
HEAD OF THE CLASS:
Wunderkind Alisa Weilerstein has juggled schoolwork and the workaday
world as a much-sought-after concert cellist, by David Templeton;
CLASS ACT: James Reel finds that the ASTA String Project
Consortium is a windfall for aspiring young teachers and string
students alike; MUSIC TO PLAY: The Hampton String Quartet offers
an excerpt from its arrangement of the classic-rock hit "Bohemian
Rhapsody"; and WHAT I'VE LEARNED: Joshua Bell shares
three secrets he learned as a college student.
Viva
Brasil!
Pernambuco is
the most cherished of all bow woods, but will it still be here tomorrow?
Cynthia Graber reports.
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DEPARTMENTS
News & Notes
Two London
landmarks get makeovers, Laurie Anderson sets her sights on space, and
more, plus Benchmarks.
Encore
Crooked Jades
fiddler Stephanie Prausnitz' career is a little accident of fate.
MUSIC
& MUSICIANS
Strings
101
Explore the time-honored technique of chopping. By James Reel.
With music to play.
Play
It!
Zhou Long's "Song
of the Ch'in" for string quartet, by Elisa M. Welch. With
music to play.
Master
Class
Harald Krebs plumbs the hidden depths of musical meter. With music
to play.
Letter
from Australia
The Vermont Fiddle Orchestra offers amateurs a musical treat. By Katrina
VanTyne.
REVIEWS
In
Print
Heather K. Scott
reviews two new collections celebrating the solo viola; a new Beethoven
urtext; the story behind Messiaen's Quartet; and fiddle tunes from coastal
Canada.
On
Record
New CDs by
Darol Anger and the American Fiddle Ensemble, the Platinum Quartet, Europa
Galante, Erik Friedlander, and others.
On
Stage
Edith Eisler
samples a cornucopia of violin soloists.
WORKBENCH
Auction Highlights
Bargain hunters find
plenty of deals at Tarisio. By Heather K. Scott.
New
Products
Bold bows, synthetic
strings, delightful drones, and more. By Heather K. Scott.
Cover:
Ron Carter. Photographer: Kunihiro Takuma
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