A violin is a remarkable object - a piece of wood that can sing like a human voice. Maybe more remarkably, a violin can sit dormant for years - decades, even - then sing again, with the very same voice it had before its long silence. It just requires the hands of a luthier to restore its condition - and the hands of a musician to deliver its voice once again.
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The show goes on with the next episode of CCMONSTAGE Online!
Arts lovers from around the world are invited to tune in to the next episode of CCMONSTAGE Online at 7:30 p.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The premiere will stream simultaneously on CCM’s website, YouTube channel and Facebook page.
Titled Joining Hands, this 30-minute-long virtual concert features CCM string quartet-in-residence the Ariel Quartet collaborating with master’s degree students Cristian Diaz and Denielle Wilson, who are also both second-year participants in CCM’s innovative Diversity Fellowship initiative with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
To open the concert, Wilson and Diaz – a cellist and a violist respectively – join the Ariel Quartet on the stage of CCM’s Robert J. Werner Recital Hall for a performance of the first movement of Johannes Brahms’ String Sextet in B-flat Major.