Béla Bartók is the undisputed master among these three Hungarian composers of works for viola and orchestra. In the world of the viola, Tibor Serly (1901-78) is best-known as the man who made a ...

Bartók was a virtuoso pianist but his intimate feeling for string writing is evident in his many compositions for violin and viola, as well as for the medium of string quartet. The three concertos ...

So many jokes have been written about the viola that it really should be pitied. Without a look of its own (the viola resembles an overweight violin), without its own sound quality (it shares ...

For violist Sarah Switzer ’19, the four pieces that the Yale Symphony Orchestra will play Saturday night have a theme in common: a sense of place. At 8:00 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, the YSO will perform ...