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 ...

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 ...

Avi Avital is one of the world's leading classical mandolinists, gracing concert halls from Tel Aviv to Munich to New York. But the young Israeli says he discovered the mandolin only by coincidence.

You’ve probably heard the mandolin, but you may NOT have heard music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on the mandolin. Avi Avital wants to change that. Hear Avi Avital play his arrangement of one of ...

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 ...

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 ...