by Roberta Hoffman | May 23, 2021 | Events, News
What do you do when your G string breaks 4 minutes before the end of an all-Beethoven recital? One option is to forge ahead, dealing with three very sharp strings (from the change in tension on the cello) and having to improvise crazy fingerings which avoid the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 21, 2021 | News
A little excerpt from a recent music appreciation class about Schubert in which I shared Schubert’s writing about the nature of true happiness: Although Schubert was very ill during his last years and died at the age of 31, he was vividly aware of the source of...
