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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Strad November 2021.
Editor’s letter
ANGELA LYONS
When Chad Hoopes won the Junior division of the 2008 Menuhin Competition aged 13, life as an international soloist may well have beckoned. Still only 27, the American violinis...
Contributors
ITZEL ÁVILA
(Making Matters, page 72) is a violin maker based in Toronto, Canada, and the president of the Makers’ Forum, Canada’s association of violin and bow makers. Born in Mexico,...
SOUNDPOST
Letters, emails, online comments ONLINE COMMENT
David and Igor Oistrakh in the 1950s
Nigel Kennedy’s decision to drop out of a Classic FM concert after being asked to replace a Hendrix arra...
Open for business
News and events from around the world this month Read all the breaking news in the string world online www.thestrad.com
Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestr...
NEWS IN BRIEF
‘Musical segregation’: Nigel Kennedy pulls out of Classic FM concert bit.ly/3ue8mYG
UK violinist Nigel Kennedy cancelled an appearance at a Classic FM Live concert on 22 September, alleging th...
OBITUARIES
SEBASTIAN HESS
German cellist Sebastian Hess has died of a brain aneurysm. He was 5 0 years old. Born in 1971, Hess studied at the Universities of Music in Würzburg and Munich with Juli...