Canadian jazz-and-several-other-genres guitarist Jeff Healy has died at the age of 41.

Forensic experts in Scotland have created a digital reconstruction of JS Bach’s face.

One curved bow, or two straight? Two unique methods of continually playing on more than one cello string.

Philip Glass plus 1620 Amati cello equals much love! (And investment; ouch.) A review of a live presentation of the solo cello piece said that “Songs and Poems,” a tough and yearning work with obvious nods to and borrowings from the solo cello music master Bach, starts out boldly and wanders through varied expressive terrain. From the outset, rolling double stops and harmonic colors alert us to material outside the usual Glass palette, although it is equipped with the familiar Minimalist repetitions and phrase fragmentation. ‘Glass moves beyond Glass’, indeed.

And finally, from The Onion: Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies. Since beginning two weeks ago, the deficit in these vernacular phrases has affected nearly every English speaker on the continent, making it virtually impossible to communicate symbolic ideas through a series of words that do not individually share the same meaning as the group of words as a whole. In what many are calling a cast-iron piano tune unlike any on record, idiomatic expression has been devastated nationwide…