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String theory offers a potential way around that problem.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

String quartets strummed their way through classical covers of pop hits.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

Mr. Cook’s film is relatively stingy in this regard—offering about five minutes of the Emersons’ final performance, of Schubert’s String Quintet—and struggles to determine what might meaningfully take the place of pure performance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Coulter has written or co-written several songs for Eurovision, including the UK's 1967 winning song, Puppet on a String, which singer Jade Thirlwall sampled last year.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025

Bill played trumpet and took vocals on Glenn Miller arrangements of such tunes as In the Mood, String of Pearls, and Don’t Fence Me In.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston