Coronavirus has given me the opportunity to catch up—to write about exhibitions, performances, books, that I had meant to address but that slipped by until Coronavirus got in the way. I feel like ...

Beethoven's three "Razumovsky" string quartets left both their first performers and the public shocked and suspicious. The violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh, whose quartet premiered the Opus 59 works, ...

Last weekend, the spotlight shone brightly on two of our extraordinary chorus quartets, ‘The Fourtuned Cookies’ and ‘A ...

Ralph Fiennes delivers an animated performance of the T.S. Eliot works, but the film doesn’t quite succeed in bringing the stage into the cinema. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In college one night, I got very stoned and read T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” I was gripped by it, and felt I understood it — a ...

Scientists have come up with a way to reveal the pecking order within a string quartet. A team from the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Birmingham found that analysing how individual ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Most composers – and most listeners – see the string quartet as a civilised conversation. Not Carter (1908-2012). In ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Bay Citizen By Chloe Veltman String quartets are proliferating in Bay Area art spaces almost as fast as upscale food carts on street corners. Only ...

I first read T. S. Eliot’s poetic sequence Four Quartets as an eighth-grade Catholic schoolgirl, in a thin hardbound anthology from our small school library. I usually preferred fiction, but I was ...

The greatness of the Four Quartets lies partly in their abstract considerations, but also in the way that they are so particular in their imagery. They are poems of long walks in the English ...