International cellow day is celebrated on December 29. A cello which is the short form for violoncello is a string musical instrument which comes with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. Know who ...

While working on her doctoral thesis, cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas remembers chancing on a 1932 letter from Rabindranath Tagore to his granddaughter. There is an instrument, he says, that he prefers ...

A string instrument "Cello" which is larger than the violin and slightly smaller than the contrabass is a musical instrument with four strings and bass echoes. A cello craftworker cut out timber, ...

Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je’raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it’s his most recent instrument — cello — that has ...

On a winter afternoon, Eddie Adams walked into a Kohl’s department store in Fairfax County looking for a red button-down shirt. He really didn’t have the money, but he was set to go onstage at the ...

‘Cello’ Selvaraj’s destiny was decided sometime in the 60s, during a musical performance in Madurai. Music composer MS Viswanathan, the most happening composer of that time, was supposed to be ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an excerpt from a Washington Post article that ran in April. Since then, a GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $161,000 to help Eddie Adams meet the expenses of attending ...

Cellist Matt Haimovitz earned a reputation as a bit of a maverick in the classical world, playing concert tours in nightclubs and recording music by the likes of jazzman John McLaughlin and even ...