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The Violin Maker,” a new play based on the true story of Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein who gathered and restored ...
The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the ...
“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...
Donation Options Search Search Search Cyrus Spurlock’s violin was crafted by his older brother, who worked for a New York luthier. “It’s always been a big part of my music and the stuff I ...
music. Known collectively as Black Violin, the Grammy-nominated duo will be performing April 9 at the Scottish Rite Auditorium. The two virtuosos first met back in 1996 on the first day of ...
There’s at least one encore left for a $650,000 violin stolen from the University of Southern California this month and thought to have been lost forever. Los Angeles Police Department ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The man whose valuable violin was stolen on a CTA train in the Loop on Friday night spoke exclusively to ABC7 Chicago Monday. He said the violin is worth thousands, but holds far ...
CHICAGO – Chicago police are asking for the public’s help with finding a violin worth $10,000 that was taken during a robbery on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train. Police said the ...
The violin played as the Titanic ship sinks in the Hollywood film is expected to sell for £60,000 at auction. Amid the chaos of the sinking ship, a string quartet plays the hymn Nearer My God To Thee, ...
Japanese glassblowers have turned their chops to replicating the string instrument – so closely that they’ve created an extraordinary glass violin that can actually be played like the real thing.