On the Cover
Yo-Yo Ma
Special Focus:Â Contemporary Instruments & Bows
- How to Talk to your Violin maker
- Copying vs. Interpretation and Design
- Trade & Value: the many ways to acquire a contemporary instrument and what to expect over time in terms of value
Features and Departments
- Stephanie Powell in China: The Youth Music Culture Guangdong program, and how China is becoming a classical-music powerhouse
- David Del Tradici: American Masters Series
- Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica on new Weinberg release
- Tales of the Trade: David Rivinus
- Your Instrument: Scrolls
- Main News Item: Recent Strad wood study; 5 minutes with Barenreiter editor and Saint-Saens expert Michael Stegemann
- What’s in the Case: Atar Arad
- Rep Prep: Eric Coyne on mastering Faure’s Elegie
- On My Music Stand: Zuill Bailey
- For the Record: Pieter Wispelwey
Key Dates
- Advertising reservations due by January 19, 2017
- Advertising materials due by January 26, 2017
- Issue on sale March 14, 2017