Background Hypertension is a major cause of premature death worldwide, controlled by only one in five adults. Two trials ...

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

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The Brubeck brothers grew up surrounded by music. Their father Dave Brubeck was a pioneer of the cool jazz movement. Now, they are carrying on the family legacy as the Brubeck Brothers Quartet. The ...

In recognition of its 50th anniversary, the world-renowned Takács Quartet was recently the subject of an in-depth profile by The New York Times and featured on the cover of Strad magazine. The Takács ...

A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...

The narrative winds these characters closer and closer together from four separate origins to tell a single story. At the game's heart—both narratively and mechanically—is magic. A villainous empire ...

A series of unlikely train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage. Choose from four stories, in any order, and discover how they intertwine in this ...

Three juniors and a senior player on the volleyball team at Northern Michigan University have been named to the Academic ...

In a new quartet of seasoned New York improvisers, the Wilco guitarist reveals his range, balancing soft duets with hard grooves and ballads with bedlam. Flexibility unites the members and the ...

The Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala canon of award-winning, beloved literary adaptations and cross-cultural period dramas lasted more than four decades, and in the middle sits 1981’s mostly forgotten “Quartet ...

OK, it sounds like the plot of a daytime soap, and sometimes it is. But director Yaron Zilberman and co-writer Seth Grossman have tuned their film with the skill of the quartet at the heart of their ...