NO ITALIAN SERENADE WOULD BE complete without one, but the mandolin has otherwise been to classical music what Lillian Gish was to movies: a ubiquitous, wildly popular player long ago, fondly ...
During this concert, Avital spoke about the mandolin’s identity conflict. A staple instrument of classical music in the 17th and 18th centuries, it is now more closely associated with folk. In his ...
To say Brian Oberlin is smitten with the mandolin is an extreme understatement. The award-winning performer plays baroque, romantic, swing, bluegrass, contemporary, classical, Cajun and folk music, ...