The “artist-reporter” Allan Rohan Crite’s straightforward depictions of ordinary Black city life challenged simplistic ...

Perfectionism - and a noisy mind - are conditions that seem to affect a lot of musicians, particularly violinists. So I'm not ...

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.

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, ...

“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 ...

Joel Pitchon and Volcy Pelletier will perform Zoltán Kodály's Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7 for February's Music Monday. This work is an emotionally charged example of Kodály's method of melding ...