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In 2019 (at age 15), violinist Jeanne Marquez partnered with Filipino-Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski (then age 19!) in a ...
Eli Raphael Gruska, Unity Phelan, and Noah McAuslin with the New York City Ballet in "In G Major," choreography by Jerome ...
Cecilia Belcher, assistant principal second violin for the Minnesota Orchestra, gets the spotlight this weekend as she ...
The violin by the famed Italian luthier was plundered at the end of World War II and presumed lost or destroyed. Now experts ...
British physicists claim they’ve created the “world’s smallest violin” — and, by the looks of it, they could take a bow for their masterpiece invention. The brainy bunch at Loughborough ...
Physicists at Loughborough University have used cutting-edge nanotechnology to create what they believe may be "the world's smallest violin," which is small enough to fit within the width of a ...
A Jewish prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances.
We asked Hilary Hahn, John Adams, André Rieu and others to pick the music that moves them. Listen to their choices.
The violin is arguably the world’s most popular instrument. Its expressive tones suit a variety of musical styles, from fast and furious to slow and sanguine. Becoming popular in the 16 th ...
The violin is being restored for a very specific buyer. A player. So that one day, the Stradivarius, a secret for decades, can be free, to sing again.
The shape of the violin changed over time, depending on the luthier's family history and proclivities for imitating other violin-maker styles.
A violin played by Titantic’s musical conductor as the ship sank sold at auction Saturday for more than $1.7 million, a UK-based auction house said.