Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

We rank the all-time great, most stirring violin concertos… from Bruch and Beethoven, to Mozart and Marsalis, here are the very best. The violin is one of the most expressive instruments in the ...

What do you do when you’re performing a stirring violin solo before a concert crowd, and a string on your instrument suddenly breaks? That’s what happened with violinist Ray Chen, performing Thursday ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...

On Thursday night (November 4), performing with the Grammy Award-winning Seattle Symphony, star violinist Ray Chen broke a string on his violin (that’s one of four total, mind you) and, as if he’d ...

These are definitively the most melancholy pieces of violin music you’ve ever heard. All the rosin in the world will not be able to dry your tears. Feeling a bit blue? These sad violin pieces are for ...

For Jews during the Holocaust, there wasn't much reprieve from the despair and horror surrounding them, but music — particularly that of violins, which hold an important role in Jewish culture — ...