The attention of all in the room falls upon a violinist standing up to lead her ensemble members into a unified chord. Before ...

JB Violins is tucked into a small building off Alley 38, just south of West Bonita Avenue in Claremont. One might expect its location in Claremont is the result of the arts-friendly college culture of ...

Making a violin is not hard, Brown says ... Maybe it’s best described in the sheet music for a 1910 song on display in his store window: “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” ...

This year, the Fiddlers will present “Stravaig: A Musical Ramble” on Friday in Davis, Saturday in San Rafael and Sunday in ...

Ashby and Bill Strickland, former president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, in 2008 created the Pittsburgh Jazz ...

I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds ...

He often studies the sheet music in bed and perfects his hand movements ... He has also played the violin, trumpet, French horn and saxophone before finally landing on the clarinet.

A violin made in 1941 inside the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was found to contain a hidden note from its maker, Polish ...

By Zachary Woolfe In classical music ... that it can be hard to imagine why some of them were resisted when they were new. Take Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, which endears us with ...

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, ...

He in fact kept all the instruments and sold them to a violin dealer in Los Angeles who was unaware of the criminal scheme. The five instruments he stole ranged in value, with the most expensive being ...