Amati “King” cello at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a special summer guest: the world’s oldest known cello.

What if one instrument could make you feel everything – joy, grief, longing, and hope, all at once? That’s the cello. Its voice sits closer to the human range than any other classical instrument, warm ...

Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je’raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it’s his most recent instrument — cello — that has ...

A musical encounter with concellcream turned into a beautiful collaboration between piano and cello. Together, we performed ...