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A tour de force. It’s hard to think of a better description of “The Violin Maker,” from International City Theatre, making its American debut at the Beverly O’Neill Theater in downtown ...
A violin from a Nazi concentration camp nearly went unnoticed for over eight decades, then a secret note changed everything. In 1941, while imprisoned at Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted ...
This image obtained from AP video shows a tag with the text ''K.L. Dachau'' seen through the f-holes of a Dachau-built instrument dubbed the ''violin of hope'' in Magyarpolány, Hungary, Tuesday April ...
“About 60 years before (Borodin’s creation), Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini premiered his finger-breaking First Violin Concerto, causing an uproar of excitement in the audience ...
Slung on Ehnes’s shoulder was his blue leather-trimmed violin case, inside his 1715 “Marsick” Stradivarius violin. The next day, he would perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major ...
A dozen of the world’s finest violinists are locked in a fierce bow against bow battle to become the first-ever winner of the Classic Violin Olympus in Dubai. The classic violinists each earned ...
Violin is often called the most human of instruments, soft, soulful, and achingly intimate. It’s also one of the most demanding — an art that can take years, even decades, to master.
“We’re all dead set on keeping it the jewel in the crown. It’s like a Stradivarius violin. Only one person in the world can tune it.” And like a Stradivarius, bespoke can be unattainable ...
An assistant professor, her bio describes her book project “Dark Angels: Black Violinists and the Race of Musical Instruments” as “refram[ing] the violin by attending to its integral place ...