No. 288, May/June 2019

Finding a Way Back to the Garden Exploring Caroline Shaw’s music 
for string quartet By Thomas May   Three’s Company Seizing the moment, Trio Oreade records Mozart’s ‘Divertimento’ on three Strads  By Cristina Schreil   Beyond Jazz Part spiritual journey, part art project, violinist-violist Jasminfire’s first solo record explores her happiest highs and deepest lows following death and transformation By Cristina Schreil   Editor’s Note   News & Notes Marin Alsop on why she’s optimistic about the future of classical music—and a year of Beethoven; 5 Minutes with . . . Anne-Sophie Mutter, and more   First Person A case of mistaken identity   Shop Talk Luthier Antoine Nédélec on what he learned from a 1704 Strad violin   What’s in the Case? Violinist Emma Meinrenken opens up about breaking in the 1689 ‘Baumgartner’ Strad   New Products A look at Yamaha’s latest student 
acoustic violin   On My Music Stand Cellist Laura van der Heijden on the optimism within Prokofiev’s sonata
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