Police had music for two violin owners` ears Thursday as they recovered a pair of 19th Century violins valued as high as $43,000 that had been missing since 1986. Police charged Juan Carlos Toranzo, ...

In the second week of January, 1887, Antonin Dvorak’s began and completed “Terzetto, Opus 74 For Two Violins and Viola.” Considered to be the most popular piece in the small repertoire for this ...

At the New York Philharmonic, concertos by Samuel Barber and Wynton Marsalis offered contrasting musical ideas: lyrical cohesion and vibrant pluralism.

Saint-Saens’ Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor requires rock-solid technique and the ability to make the instrument sing beautifully when the melodies spin themselves out lyrically. Large doses of ...

In Skylight Theatre's latest show, Fiddler on the Roof, perhaps the most powerful piece of storytelling is truly instrumental. Two violins, played both on and off stage, survived the Holocaust. They ...

If you’ve ever watched an orchestra perform, you might have noticed a sea of violinists front and centre, bows rippling up and down in unison. They’re usually split into two sections – first violins ...

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Heard a story once about Niccolo Paginini, the Italian violin prodigy who suffered from a grab-bag of maladies, that when his teeth began to fall out he’d use violin strings to hold them together. The ...

Almost three centuries after Antonio Stradivari's death he remains the greatest luthier of all times, with roughly 650 out of 1000 violins of his making still testifying to his exquisite craftsmanship ...

Violins of Hope Reading, a two-week celebration centered around a collection of more than 50 string instruments rescued from the Holocaust and restored by Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein and his ...