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Cello professor Daniel McDonough appears on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday and talks about the Jupiter String Quartet’s performance at the Coolidge Auditorium in the Library of Congress.
On playing Strads at the library, Prof. McDonough remarks, “These instruments, because they’ve been played for hundreds of years and because they’ve aged and grown into themselves so beautifully, have a kind of ringing tone that I think no other instrument [has].”
The full NPR article by Tom Huizenga along with an audio excerpt can be found here.