This summer I visited four old-time opera houses in three different states. All are in current use: the Stoughton Opera House in...

In the leadup to his departure from the US, Alwin Schroeder's 1907 farewell concerts started with a February 3 program at Boston’s...

“His technical command of his noble instrument is infallible, his tone full and pure and his style free and genial, like his personality....

It has been about a year since, on a fine spring day in 2022, after the last April snow “surprise” hereabouts, I started to compose. I...

Listen to Balyozov's Baza i nadstroika (string duo version of Bach's first cello suite) During the month of March my thoughts often turn...

Part 2 of my biographical sketch of Alwin Schroeder is titled "Ballenstedt and Berlin." It deals mainly with the years 1868-1874, when...

“If you would hear the very soul tell all its deepest, most inner feeling, if you would listen to language as from another world and from...

Looking up from the organ loft at St. Trinitatus church in the Thurginian town of Holzengel ("wooden angel"), home of Alwin Schroeder's...

Earlier in the year I was able to record a handful of cello pieces to add to the collection on my YouTube channel, and today I actually...

During a recent visit to the Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives, I came across documentation of some interesting facts related to the...

I recently uploaded the first installment of my expanded Alwin Schroeder biography. This first part covers Alwin's ancestry and early...

Among the Oscar Cobb opera houses highlighted in my previous post was one that existed briefly in Duluth, Minnesota. In a surprise...

As a follow-up to my Ashland Grand Opera House post, here are the briefest of sketches on some of the late 19th-century opera houses...

Read my earlier Lazar Nikolov post here Listen to Nikolov's second cello sonata here Yesterday, on the occasion of Lazar Nikolov's 100th...

I discovered the Ashland Grand Opera House on a recent trip to the Chequamegon Bay area on the southern shores of Lake Superior. A city...

Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Exactly three years ago, as Petros and I circled the central streets of Sondershausen in search of a free...

To those of you who know me as a sometime arranger of cello music, usually from original Bulgarian works for other instruments or...

I’m starting out this post to the somewhat unlikely soundtrack of “Mello Cello,” a meditative instrumental piece by Steven Halpern and...

In honor of Alwin Schroeder's 167th birthday, here are the Sarabande and Gigue from the Suite in E minor by Julius Klengel, his Leipzig...

Klengel dedicated his Op. 2 cello pieces to Schroeder. Listen to the opening Berceuse. During the 1880s, two outstanding cellists...