A rare and beautiful sound will be heard in a Minnetonka hotel ballroom Saturday, Oct. 6. The fat, lush thrum of about 100 mandolins strumming together will ring out as the annual convention of the ...

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

The strings of the mandolin stretch across a century, and across an ocean, linking Kalamazoo to Italy. So mandolin virtuoso Carlo Aonzo can’t help but to have an affection for our town. Aonzo spoke ...

The Classical Mandolin Society of America will convene in Kansas City Nov. 8 to 12, with some free concerts included. Casey Toth Raleigh News & Observer It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when ...

This is the second album from the 35-year-old Israeli mandolinist, who garnered a Grammy nomination with his debut album of self-transcribed Bach concertos in 2012. He goes deep into exploration mode ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X When classical guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Joseph Todaro moved from Lansdowne, Delaware County, to Shillington ...

will pluck tangos, rags, marches, polkas and some light European classical from the 1880s-1920s era of the mandolin orchestra craze. “Mandolin orchestras, like brass bands, were extremely popular a ...

Avi Avital is the featured performer in "InstaConcerto for Mandolin and Orchestra," a 75-second concerto written for Instagram. Harald Hoffman/Deutsche Grammophon What do you think of when you think ...

It may sound like a scene right out of “Antiques Roadshow,” but there were no television cameras at the Denver Folklore Center last October when staffer Nick Amodeo picked up the phone. On the line ...