“But do all grasshoppers play their music on violins, the same way as you do?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You put so much work into making this place beautiful. I didn’t even help you. And now it’s so perfect and your violin sounds so lovely...” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And Elena would remember that look on her mother’s face, that longing to bring the world closer to perfection—like turning the peg of a violin and bringing the string into tune. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His extraordinary skills on the violin led many to suspect he had struck a deal with the devil. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later she watched Jessie slowly close her eyes, lulled to sleep by the violin playing and the warm air wrapping around her from the radiator. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It is around this time that the violin finally makes its first appearance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mouth full, Manet made a gesture with both hands as if playing an imaginary violin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Isa pushed the hair off her shoulder and put her violin up, clenched her eyes shut, and crashed her bow onto the strings. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He having heard my entreaty, Mr. Turner barely spake to me, but asked me to play him something upon my violin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asaian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That classical music stuff makes you drift off worse than NyQuil, then fires you awake soon as the violins get to screaming. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Crowned queen a year after purchasing the 1546 Amati violins, she introduced to the French court what amounted to a complete lifestyle after the Italian fashion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Those were my thoughts when I heard the sound of a violin. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of the undisputed masterpieces of all music for the violin, comprising an astonishing sixty-four continuous variations on a single theme, creating the impression of an orchestra of sound from one single instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She had left the “scary, screechy” phase of violin playing shortly after that first year, and had even won a couple of violin competitions recently. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Whatever the spur, the lure of the violin proved irresistible, and predominantly German piffari wind bands were soon surpassed by predominantly Italian violin consorts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded strange, yet musical, like a plucked violin. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isa started wiping down her violin with the soft cloth she kept in her case. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The family was all caught up in the violin playing. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The violins were sawing away in my spine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I saw the Huangs, the same old complaining relatives now embarrassed by this poor showing, the entertainers with their violins and flutes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made like he was playing a violin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Will you visit me and play the violin?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Moreover, she was often bitingly sarcastic, especially to the second violins, especially the ones who—as one of the cellos put it drily—were “pigmentally blessed.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I practiced upon my violin, I did so in the top of the house, away from his apartments. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kids who sing in the choir, learn to play the violin, and take gymnastics or ballet or swimming lessons after school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Each sonata portrays an aspect of the Virgin Mary’s or Christ’s life - the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and so on - and it ends with a piece for solo violin, called simply ‘The Guardian Angel’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Izzy, who had been playing violin since she was four, and had been assigned second chair even though she was a freshman, should have had nothing to fear. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She pointed her bow at Deja Johnson, who was at the back of the second violins. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m a musician too. I play the violin!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t get nervous when I’m playing the violin. This is way worse.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They are all musical; the father plays the violin; the oldest son, the cello. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Three of us among the servants made a little consort of music—I on the violin, an indentured Irishman who also played the fiddle, and a slave from another house who played the flageolet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Grasping at my arm, covered with twigs, he spake to me; I heard the violin all around us; I awoke. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think anybody was expecting him to play violin in nobody’s orchestra anytime, but listening to him didn’t make your ears bleed. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The radio crackles and squawks, interrupted now and then by a soothing French voice, then a wisp of violin and a quiet French horn. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I went up before the assembly, and was given a violin that was not mine. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It now seemed really clear that, having assumed they were to hear a beaudful or entertaining violin recital, they were disappointed, and were allowing their peace and quiet to be disturbed only out of politeness. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed him at all before then, other than that he was this skinny cutish dude with thick glasses and longish hair who carried a violin everywhere. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then the lights would dim, and the violins would start playing, and I take her face between my hands ... oh, jeez. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding her violin, and jabbed her bow against the arm of the couch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Around the same time that the violin began its conquest of Europe, keyboard technology was also undergoing rapid advancement. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma is done with French now and is unpacking her violin. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Better: Johnny found that the old violin hidden in a trunk in his attic wasn’t a real Stradivarius. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the father came with the music stand, the mother with the sheet music, and the sister with the violin. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

She polished her violin, placing it tenderly back in its case with the white cloth over its neck. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the city room Vega sat on a upside-down pickle bucket playing his violin while he watched me and Rose build. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Charlie stood in the living room with her violin, playing her musical prodigy stuff. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And we ‘short-horns’ are the only ones who play our music in the violin style, using a bow. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Comets, violins, parades, loneliness, clouds, beards, bigots, lists, flags, earthquakes, despair were all swept up in a scram-bled swirling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his violin is made all out of Legos. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And then he had started playing his violin. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Hannah saw that there were three musicians in all: the clarinet, the violin, and an accordion. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Goble sisters excelled in school and took piano and violin lessons and practiced diligently. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Next, strings. May I have my violins, please?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She and her father cook a pear tart and burn it by accident, and her father opens all the windows to let out the smoke, and she hears violin music rise from the street below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the shop next door to his, a girl is standing on a milk crate, playing violin. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was not even startled when the violin fell from the mother's lap, out from under her trembling fingers, and gave off a reverberating tone. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I prized off my trainers I heard a piano, joined by a quiet violin. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He grinned and sat down next to me and started to unpack his violin from its case. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The voices cease and the violin continues alone. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The royal orchestra marches in with stringed misens and violins and cellos, and the first waltz of the evening begins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Then was it some violinist, who pressed his cheek with love against his darling violin as he played?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book on violins that Steve had got him for Christmas was lying behind him on his windowsill. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Behind her slanted sunglasses her useless eyes were closed, but she could see the music as it left her violin and lifted into the afternoon like smoke. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both sound like a shaky violin, which sounds like a cat crying. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Very softly, the Old-Green-Grasshopper started to play the Funeral March on his violin, and by the time he had finished, everyone, including himself, was in a flood of tears. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, watching the kid play the violin. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

This violin was built by the famous Amati famib of Cremona, Italy, whos mid-sixteenth-century violins are the world’s oldest surviving example of the instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The first song started all mournful trumpets and violins. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Cracking. For our next concert, I shall shift you to play with the first violins.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He played violin and read music and composed it, mostly classical and religious music. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The violin’s absence of frets, which had been a feature of the viola da gamba family and the lute, also allowed its player greater freedom in the tuning and individuality of phrasing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She has to shout above the sound of a dozen violins and a harpsichord. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doña Charito's collected works hung on the walls: mostly pitchers and bowls of fruit, and violins or guitars, I couldn't tell the difference, for we hadn't had music lessons yet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Through loudspeakers surrounding the pool, a Schubert sonata plays, violins and cellos. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some people inherit houses; others paintings or highly insured violin bows. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He played the violin beautifully and I’d often ask him to play various songs for me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gifted artist and violin player, he was a radio expert and one of the Army’s best code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You still,” he asked, “are in need of a violin?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The violin music came to an abrupt halt. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A cello was a big violin that sat on the floor. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘Bill, this don’t look like any real violin I ever saw.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“One with a violin and the other a viola, am I correct? Crossing all those busy streets. That is a long walk for ten-year-old boys.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He went through the two other hymns he’d learned—“The Rosary” and “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”—and then did the violin concerto. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although these instruments are quite similar, the viola has a noticeably "deeper" and the violin a noticeably "brighter" sound that is not simply a matter of the violin playing higher notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They caught him by himself, coming home from his violin lesson. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The sound of their voices would echo to the ceiling, and then the band would play from the gallery where I was leaning now, the man with the violin smiling, swaying to the music. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soft piano or violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments work well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The line might be performed by any musician or group of musicians: a singer, for example, or a bassoonist, a violin section, or a trumpet and saxophone together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were that of the girl in the clock playing the violin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was a blur now; I couldn’t remember any dreams, just flashes of red hair and chess pieces, wisps of violin music. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’ve got some singers, a violin player, a kid who does these cool lasso tricks. Have you seen him?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He paused playing his violin and told me, “Tchaikovsky.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Her sarcophagus, for example, the one in which her violin case was hidden. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can almost hear the documentary’s mournful violin background music start up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The oldest surviving violin made according to the design we recognise today is generally agreed to be one constructed by Andrea Amati of Cremona for Charles IX, King of France, in 1564. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the dozen or so photos in Google images, mostly head shots of Sarah with her violin and Rotary award ceremony groupings, she is slim, like Vivian, with an alert, guarded expression. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her violin mostly sat on a shelf these days, calling out to her, almost mocking her as she washed endless piles of dishes and dirty diapers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For one thing the thought of the violin kept worrying her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A blond sophomore girl steps out with a violin and sheet music. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And I played the violin like a very devil. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sounds of a furious violin poured from the living-room window. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He snaps his fingers at her for the violin. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Van Hooten, his violin case slung over his shoulder, blew into the brownstone right before dinner began, exclaiming over the severe weather. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The sword made a screech, like the sound of a bow being drawn shakily over the strings of a violin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her violin from the console next to the front entrance, jerked the door open, and took the stairs two at a time up to the Beiderman’s apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In its many rooms, the men read their odes, or played the violin, or performed their philosophical exercises. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The violins pluck over the booming chords of a piano. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Pa grabbed his violin and began to play. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The amplitude of a sound is a particular number, usually measured in decibels, but dynamics are relative; an orchestra playing fortissimo sounds much louder than a single violin playing fortissimo. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Octavian? Your presence is cordially requested in the audience room! We have your violin!” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her mind was a tornado of thoughts and questions and anxiety while she recorded herself playing the violin section of Paganini’s “Cantabile for Violin and Guitar” for the CD she was making for the Beiderman. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The man finished what he was doing and shut a wooden box, like a violin case no longer than a walnut. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Good heavens, I like that! My dear boy, I am a real violin! It is part of my own body!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed at Isa and her violin for another long moment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After a silence had elapsed, Dr. Trefusis reported, “Private Nothing plays upon the violin.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I tensed like violin strings tuned to the highest note. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Morris reported that a violin case was found in a sarcophagus last week. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Marfa’s mother It’s the music, The mariachis With their Guitar, trumpets, And the romance Of two violins. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never stuck with dance classes or did violin or any kind of organized sport. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She began to write down pieces for the violin and piano. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All of the violinists were then asked the same question: over the course of your entire career, ever since you first picked up the violin, how many hours have you practiced? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When a note was for violin or ’cello or flute she would write the name of the instrument to show. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“All right, Eliezer... All right. . . Not too much air. . . Tired. My feet are swollen. It’s good to rest, but my violin . . .” I thought he’d lost his mind. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, a girl was playing a pop song I recognized from the radio on her violin. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Who was this madman who played the violin here, at the edge of his own grave? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little poufs and tables of knickknacks spring up like mushrooms, and the walls are lined with Stratocasters and Flying Vs, violins, an assortment of harps, one stout cello propped up in the corner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was swinging her arm back and forth, playing violin music. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His violin shoots out a black bullet straight into Harp’s forehead and the bullet keeps flying straight into Gully’s forehead, right behind Harp! The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Music wafted through the dusk—the trill and wail of a klezmer’s violin rivaled by a woman fiddling a lively Irish jig. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could have spoken up, “I want to sit on the low stool in Big Mama’s kitchen with my lap full of lilacs and listen to Big Papa play his violin for me alone.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was incredibly lame, because we don’t even own a violin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

This violin had a piercing, insistent sweetness of tone, almost like a baby crying. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wisps of violin music floated on the air. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They went further in, down a red corridor, past rooms filled with empty chairs upon which rested violins and violas and cellos which played themselves, or seemed to, when fed a coin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It’s a deep bass, all alone with a smooth, beautiful violin above it and something that sounds like chimes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It took a moment for Hannah to realize that the second was a violin. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instruments that can tune almost instantly, like voices, violins, and trombones, this is not a problem; but it is unworkable for pianos, harps, and other other instruments that cannot make small tuning adjustments quickly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The snarl grew louder and began to run up and down the scale, until it resembled the sound of a violin being tuned. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I was forbidden to read any of the Latin volumes of history and song to which I had turned; forbidden to read narratives in English; forbidden often even the practice of my violin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bridge of a violin held up the strings at the end and some sound-holes had been carved on either side. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

To give you some idea of the difference that articulation makes, though, here are audio examples of a violin playing a legato54 and a staccato55 passage. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There was a box filled with violins, an accumulation of stuffed dead animals, chairs without seats, books and prints. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Mam- machi’s violin and violin stand, the Ooty cupboards, the plastic basket chairs, the Delhi beds, the dressing table from Vienna with cracked ivory knobs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a famous painting of the two boys together in Florence in 1770, Mozart at the piano, Linley with the violin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The cellos made the hills glow red, and the leaves and grass were tipped with a soft pale green as the violins began their song. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny knew full well she had no interest at all in the violin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bow of the violin, the part that moved, was his back leg. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He bought a violin and spent his evenings playing music in his apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Munich Philharmonic had one or two women on the violin and the oboe. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Blink liked to play it on his violin. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was all very, very satisfying, and never so much as when, finally, she made a sound like the sighing of doves and violins, and...set fire to his bed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They all held polished violins under their chins, the bows poised at identical angles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

June bugs flickered all around, and music notes floated from inside, sounding like a violin, only a lot sadder. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become his bow. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A violin in a dark barrack where the dead were piled on top of the living? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth grade’s violin performance had only just started, and already Alice was squirming in her seat next to me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And the eleven-year-old boy who won first prize playing a tricky violin song that sounded like a busy bee. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess playing his violin was like that, but I had barely seen Vega at all. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I really hope it wasn’t my violin playing that caused all this.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Schillinger brothers warmed up their violins as older children chased each other around the school room. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the violin started playing, they became attentive, got up, and went on tiptoe to the hall door, at which they remained standing pressed up against one another. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The violins are hundreds of shimmering gold lights, the horns are cubes of green, and the drums are a bright aqua blue. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The track shifts in one smooth measure—the sound of electric violins, cellos, and a deep, reverberating beat fills the space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If it’s not too hard for you. Mr. Van Hooten told me about the violin.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I pled with her—knowing not why I pled—“But I am free. I play my violin.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then she tucks the violin beneath her chin, and looks at Abby. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Isa, her usually tidy hair now an angry halo, pointed the tip of her violin bow one inch from the Beiderman’s cold heart. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She started to slam the violin down on the floor and stomp on it, but instead she put it back roughly into the hatbox. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Attention and perseverance behaviors of preschool children enrolled in Suzuki violin lessons and other activities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“It was beautiful! It was as though you had a real violin in your hands!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he hears that I can play the piano he fetches his violin and plays. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harp and Gully laugh, teasing about how weak Vega is for playing a Lego violin. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Her violin case kept bumping him, and he began to walk a few steps ahead of her. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bring your daughter who wants to attend Columbia, bring her transcripts and civics essay and have her bring her violin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very corny book--I realize that--but I couldn't get that violin stuff out of my mind anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

With these majestic violins, you’d think we were in some castle on the English moor instead of a dingy church basement in Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The strings of the violin, the part that made the sound, was the edge of his wing. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had two kids he doted on, never missed his child support payments, worked a second job as night security to pay for his daughter’s violin lessons. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Listen to recordings of a violin and a viola. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He is about to hand the earphone to Jutta when—clear and unblemished, about halfway down the coil—he hears the quick, drastic strikes of a bow dashing across the strings of a violin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But even if he was just a young kid he had made up all these beautiful pieces for the piano and for the violin and for a band or orchestra too. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Isa played a mournful tune on her violin, and the brownstone was devoid of the bustle and laughter typical of the Vanderbeeker household. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Izzy found the whole thing unspeakably idiotic and barricaded herself upstairs, practicing her violin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inside was a cracked ukulele strung with two violin strings, a guitar string, and a banjo string. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sound continued to ring throughout the brownstone long after the bow had left the violin. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He carefully leaned his violin against the wall and stood. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Halfway through, three derelict men in suits also come out, one banging on top of a bin, the other playing violin, and the last also playing harmonica. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Isa took down her violin and found herself reaching out to touch his arm. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She played violin with the Fargo Symphony Orchestra and taught at North Dakota State University until her retirement several years ago. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“What? Go home now? We haven’t even got our clothes. And your radio is in the violin case. We’d have to go home absolutely empty handed.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spun out the somber passages, our violins singing one to the other as my mother played upon the harpsichord, and perhaps this is as much of her sadness and joy as I shall know. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Johnny White got out his violin and played along fiddle-style. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the edge of a chair, near his bedroom window, running the bow over his violin’s strings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

His sister, Mary Helen, had sent it—nearly all her savings—saying she’d take his old violin in exchange. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was wearing khaki-colored shorts and a clean, white T-shirt with a dye picture, across the chest, of Jerome the Ostrich playing the violin. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Claudia hid her violin case in a sarcophagus that had no lid. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never had Jessie heard Isa’s violin sound better, and she knew it was from the homemade acoustical treatment her sister had created in the basement over the years. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed to her as she thought back over the last month that she had never really believed in her mind that the violin would work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think I was able to help Vega when I told him he had a choice to make too: Frito and the gun, or me and his violin. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

After eating breakfast and having another stretch, he tested his wings against each other, like a violinist making sure that his violin is in tune. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The violin was his instrument of choice. Here is where he died in poverty.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Late in the evening, they arranged for her son, a solemn little article of eight or ten years old, to play the violin with his music-master and others in consort. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joe knocked on a yellow Dutch door, and the violin fell silent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Or she would spend hours on the phone talking to her friends, about which violin teacher was good and which tutorial was a waste of money. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, we have to read to the end of the sentence to learn that Johnny’s finding the violin isn’t the point. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should still be sleeping, but my father’s wife drives her to school early four mornings a week for violin lessons and conversational French. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was like a quick stroke across the strings of a violin, or like a harp that has been plucked suddenly. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But of course—what respectable family wouldn't have had at least one child playing violin? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He flicked a nickel down the staircase, where it bounced off some steps and landed in Isa’s violin case, then he scooped up Laney and placed her on top of his shoulders. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They started setting up and I saw that they had six violins, two clarinets, a marching snare, Marjorie on a portable keyboard, and two flutes. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Last spring Isa had had a solo violin part in the school concert. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

So 1 said, “I’m going to be late for violin practice.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her violin was cradled on her shoulder and she was zipping through various etudes—short study pieces her music teacher insisted she practice every day. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They lay over their book bags and over the trumpet and violin cases. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was gasping: “I . . . I’m afraid . . . They’ll break . . . my violin ... I ... I brought it with me.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards did not care for her violin. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, thank you," cried out the father, as if he were the one playing the violin. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost exactly as though he were playing upon a violin! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had held onto the violin and bow in her limp hands for a littie while and had continued to look at the sheet music as if she was still playing. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me I had a gift, like playing the violin or mastering chess. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of sequestering herself in her bedroom with her violin, she would walk the mile and a half to the house on Winslow right after school, where Mia would be hard at work. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Different composers would have had different sounds in mind when they composed for the violin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The violins alone take forty-five minutes, half of which they spend being chatty. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The boy from Warsaw who played the violin in the Buna orchestra . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of neighbors, including Mr. Jones the postman and Mr. Ritchie the Christmas tree guy, stopped in, along with Mr. Van Hooten, who pulled out his violin and started playing holiday music. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He makes room next to his paintings, his railroad cars, and his violin and mandolin and mandola. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Class as well as fashion shaped the violin’s rapid dissemination across Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I wore them,” said I, “when I played the violin with a band of music in Boston.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Chester explained that when he looked out the window, he saw Professor Mickelwhite, our next door neighbor, playing the violin in his living room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I would like,” said I, tying a knot at my ankle, “to play violin in an orchestra. Symphonies of Arne and Sammartini.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She hugs the violin to her chest before relinquishing it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the violin stands like a slender girl above it and is clear and alone. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught my mother the art of playing the harpsichord, and, when I was four or five, began to tutor me on the violin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And when the Graphic View II arrived, procured secondhand from a classified ad, well loved and packed into its own case like an expensive violin, Mia knew this would be true. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He went home and his dad said: No son of mine is going to play violin. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He could be as gay as his father, and suddenly in the middle it would be cut the way you would cut a violin string, and you could watch Tom go whirling into darkness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment, Isa was in the dungeon practicing her violin and Jessie was perched at the top of the basement stairs, a new experiment spread out before her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Liyana played the violin for them and told them, through Poppy, she would be in a symphony in Europe someday. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Simple melodies are passed back and forth between the violins in playful repetition, rather like the push and pull of a pendulum. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The harpsichord plucks along, the violins make big baroque flourishes—the low, angled space of the attic brims with sound. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Since Burger was an accomplished artist and violin player, he was instructed to set up a studio and advertise his services as a commercial artist in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I had never played microtonal music before, but it is easy to bring out on a violin, which has no fixed intervals between notes, like piano keys or guitar frets. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Taborn etched fast, glancing scribbles at the piano, punctuated by the occasional chordal chime; Mr. Black scraped and clomped around his drum kit, extracting sighing overtones from a cymbal with a violin bow. Music Review: Setting Leadership Aside For Collective Control 2011-01-14T23:24:00Z

When the solo violin and flute returned to the melody together, Mr. Bell smudged the pitch on his repeated notes a bit, adding a dab of the blues to Tchaikovsky. Music Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Opens the Tanglewood Festival 2013-07-07T21:57:38Z

In 1993, it was his violin that deepened the pathos of the “Schindler’s List” theme, which for a vast swath of listeners remains his signature tune. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin Three ballets choreographed to violin concertos could have been a nice idea on paper but a bad one in practice. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z

“Like a lot of things, I think I thought about the violin too much and overprepared,” he said. At 29, this 'El Niño' singer is the buzz of California's opera world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Her cycle of the 10 Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist Shai Wosner incorporates a new work written for each of the four programs. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The last time Znaider appeared with the Hallé it was with violin in hand, giving a scintillating account of Bartók's Second Violin Concerto to accompany Mark Elder's conducting of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z

The Andante is a wistful pas de deux between the first violin and the first viola, here the Calidore’s Jeremy Berry, who produced an unusually bright and tangy sound. Review: A Quartet With Sunny Energy and Grunge-Band Grit 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Hersh, a friend of Almond's, said he used to watch how carefully Almond would care for the violin. Mystery surrounds theft of Stradivarius violin 2014-02-05T23:10:57Z

Al de Lory's arrangement uses sweeping violins to evoke a vast empty space and the loneliness of the lineman. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

During that run of concerts, she will perform the American premiere of a double concerto for violin and oboe written for her and her husband by the French composer Thierry Escaich. Lisa Batiashvili on Violins, Ukraine and Valery Gergiev 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

There was no orchestra this time, but the backing band dwelled on feverishly virtuosic solos — frenetic drums, shredding violins — as if to compensate for the lack of Acropolis-scale forces. Yanni Is Still Chilling, 25 Years After the Acropolis 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Amir Ali, from a wealthier family, learned to play violin from an relative who owned one. In exile in Bangladesh, a bittersweet revival of Rohingya culture 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Chernick devotes time to Mr. Perlman’s discussions of the violin — its presence at Auschwitz, for example — with luthiers and students. Review: ‘Itzhak,’ the Man and the Musician 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

But the real stars here were the players from Sinfonia New York, the period-instrument band, led from the violin by Robert Mealy. Music Review: Underworld Opera?s Multimedia Twist on ?Pygmalion? 2010-05-14T22:04:00Z

It’s a work of both desolate sadness and desperate tedium for violin and cello, just barely breathed into life, in almost total darkness, by Tarn Travers and Chris Wild. Review: Ensemble Dal Niente Brings Its Intense Whimsy to the DiMenna Center 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Thyberg isn’t interested, and if this were an American movie, it would likely include a scene in which Bella, misty-eyed and accompanied by weeping violins, speaks to her trauma. ‘Pleasure’ Review: She’s a Go-Getter 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

“That’s the real opportunity here — not to mimic violin playing so much, but to embody the idea, the impression, the stylized, mythical side — just like the Chagall painting,” Ms. Hall-Tompkins said. In ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ a Title Role Shared Onstage and Off 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Young children can learn to play the violin the way they learn a language. Suzuki to replace disgraced violinist William Preucil on its teaching recordings 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Bristow returned to the violin section two seasons later, but only after the board agreed to perform his Second Symphony — a piece Jullien had commissioned. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

However, there is more than the violin to bring hope to the North African country. Tunisian doctor plays violin to boost virus patients’ morale 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

The setting was Berlin; the gift an 18th-century instrument said to be from the hands of a master luthier whose works mark the apex of three centuries of violin making. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z

The duo made a stellar combination in two slightly older pieces, beginning with a richly interpreted, smoldering performance of the first violin sonata of Brahms. Review | At the Phillips Collection, 2 young performers make for a dynamic combination 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

As the piano and violin classes were full, and she was “too old for them anyway,” young Ekaterina took up the accordion. Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Her father was a classical violinist who named her after the early 20th-century Belgian composer and violinist Eugene Ysaye, and she studied violin for 14 years in her youth. A serendipitous life: Ysaye Barnwell and the healing power of music 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Given the instrument’s soft-spoken nature, even when amplified, the solo line is not the fiery sort you would expect in a violin or piano concerto. Music Review: Chris Thile and Mandolin Join Orpheus Ensemble at Carnegie 2012-03-26T22:38:28Z

One day Einstein visited and Parks sang in German while the professor played violin. Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' 2013-05-09T17:30:01Z

It opened gently, with the excellent Kronos Quartet exchanging hypnotic themes and melodies with occasional bursts from Anderson's electric violin. Landfall - review 2013-03-03T02:23:23Z

He was the first violinist of the Prince of Wales’s band; the organist and composer Samuel Wesley wrote that Bridgetower was “justly ranked with the very first masters of the violin.” The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

The musicians — trombone, violin, accordion, tuba and more are in the instrument mix — play the audience into the theater and set a festive tone that somehow also bends time. Theater Review: Within ‘Twelfth Night,’ a Delirious One-Man Show 2014-02-16T21:19:31Z

The music itself is like an anatomical, physiological and spiritual examination of the violin: what the instrument can do and what it can do to a listener. With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

BA This week, the Paradise family have further animated chats in brightly lit rooms, nearly always resulting in someone doing or saying something accompanied by perkily plucked violins. TV highlights 26/06/2013 2013-06-26T06:00:05Z

A rhapsodizing solo viola, its range between the violins and cello, is the ideal alter-ego for both Hannahs, the inquisitive Before and the soul-searching After. 'As One,' the every(wo)man transgender opera 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Sebastian Schwab’s reduction for an eclectic variety of instruments — including banjo, violin, saxophone, vibraphone and, briefly, steel guitar — was skillful, even if the opulence of Abraham’s original orchestrations was lost. Wagner in the Parking Lot as Opera Returns to Germany 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

While the bassoonists, oboists and clarinetists navigated their jaunty, folk-like melodies, the trilling violins played in the background with a metallic sheen, adding a suggestion of bleakly beautiful winter light. Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Among the violins was Iryna Solovei, a member of the orchestra at the Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, who fled for Warsaw at the start of the invasion along with her 14-year-old daughter. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

Almond said he plans to play the violin on Monday during a performance in suburban Milwaukee. Two men charged in Wisconsin theft of Stradivarius violin 2014-02-08T00:32:48Z

In the 1940s the family moved to New York, where he taught himself to play accordion, violin, saxophone and clarinet and studied percussion at Juilliard. Johnny Pacheco, an idol in world of salsa, dies at age 85 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

She prefaced Holst’s cosmic suite with more contemporary fare: the orchestral versions of Pierre Boulez’s “Notations,” translucently celebrating the composer’s 90th birthday year, and a new violin concerto by Luca Francesconi. Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Fast forward a year or two: I was completing my doctoral thesis on indeterminacy in the violin repertoire. An Experimental Music Ensemble Won’t Just Fade Away 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Those depths, though, are impossible on the violin. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Every time we excavate down to the depths of our childhood, we find these musical treasures,” said singer Amarylis Rodríguez, who studied violin and piano growing up in Cuba. A visit to Little Havana as the embargo that enlivened it comes to an end 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Warhol was sitting at the edge of the stage handing out slices of chocolate cake. Jimmy Page got onstage holding a violin bow.” A Walk Through Velvet Underground History With John Cale 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The composer adapted this score in 2014 from a solo violin work he wrote as a piece for the Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia. Review: A Safe Start to Alan Gilbert’s Final Season With the Philharmonic 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

In 2012, Unesco decreed that traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona deserved protection on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

“Is that the famous violin made by Stradivarius?” he asked. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z

The darker finale juxtaposes swirling violin figurations with both plainchant and a German nursery rhyme declaimed by the orchestral players. LSO/Gergiev 2010-05-17T21:45:00Z

The BFO's excellence is founded upon its large body of wonderfully disciplined strings, so the fugue at the heart of the last movement was launched on a marvellously sinewy violin line. Budapest Festival O/Fischer – review 2013-04-28T13:17:18Z

There’s even the bits where the violin goes very high that reminded me of screeching tires. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

One synthesizer mimicked, distorted and chased instrumental lines played by flute, clarinet and violin soloists; another provided digital samples; and a mixing board in the audience swirled sounds around the hall through loudspeakers. Music Review: International Contempory Ensemble at Rose Theater 2012-08-06T22:19:56Z

He lifted his arms, locked eyes with the students, and the room filled with the sounds of violin and sitar. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

He excelled at that instrument and was soon named as a concertmaster - or the leader of the first violin section of the orchestra. Teen violin star is Venezuela's youngest conductor 2012-06-26T16:39:59Z

This concert marked Nigel Kennedy's return to what he describes as "probably the greatest violin concerto of them all", namely the Brahms. RPO/Litton/Kennedy – review 2012-06-14T17:13:25Z

“But the traffic police objected, saying that’s not a raft, it’s a violin,” he said with a shrug. A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Yet the kerfuffle exploded in the violin world like an out-of-tune screech in a Haydn quartet. Mark O’Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Connections across time also formed in the concert’s second half, which consisted of an ethereal performance by Ms. Cuckson of a work Mr. Nono wrote in 1989 for solo violin and electronics. Review: Miranda Cuckson and Ekmeles Draw Links Across Time 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Only when Anderson re-emerges for an encore to essay a gorgeously elegiac solo violin piece that's all too brief does her music contain as much character as her words. Laurie Anderson: Dirtday! – review 2012-08-05T17:57:31Z

Gagliano was from a family of artists trained in the Neapolitan School style of violin making. Violin Worth $200,000 Is Sold to Pawnshop for $50. The Catch? It Was Stolen. 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Buechner dispatched the elaborate runs with crispness and fluidity, while Ms. Chase brought poise to the deferential violin part. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

A 128-year-old Italian violin that Russell Crowe learned to play in a few months before starring in Master and Commander stole the show among film memorabilia on offer at the Oscar-winning actor’s auction. Russell Crowe cashes in at Art Of Divorce auction 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

He began with Suzuki training on violin as a child and went on to earn a degree in violin studies from Northwestern University. Music Match: If You Like Roy Orbison . . . 2012-09-25T22:27:52Z

The program consisted of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto and the Beethoven symphony, which is about as standard and popular as the repertory gets. Review | How the NSO and Noseda brought fresh air to the summer heat at Wolf Trap 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z

During the Pantoum, the Ravel was more sensation than sound: the deep cello rasp of hair against gut; shimmers of glissando from the piano; piercing intrusions by a worried violin. Review: Chamber-fest concert nourished body, mind and soul 2010-07-15T20:56:00Z

It is an image of acute silence, a trompe l’oeil rendering of a violin hanging on the back of a green door. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Kennedy, who is acknowledged as one of the world's leading violin virtuosos, is somewhat unusual among musicians in his willingness to speak frankly. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

When a dapperly dressed man goes into an open-eyed trance, his cohorts chant to bring him back with an increasingly frenetic howl that’s matched by Coleman, on the soundtrack, playing the violin ever more frantically. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tetzlaff conveyed with burnished tone and polished vigor the youthful energy of the concerto, one of five for violin that Mozart composed while a teenager. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Muted” may be the quietest piece ever written for violin, but it was riveting in this intimately powerful performance. The Philharmonic Takes New Music Beyond Geffen Hall 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

It is a rare program of Beethoven violin sonatas that avoids the ones made famous by their nicknames, but Ms. Faust and Mr. Melnikov chose a swath between the “Spring” and the “Kreutzer”: Nos. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z

Now there is “Limitless,” a set of duos for violin and another instrument, each performed by Ms. Koh and the composers, in two concerts at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

The violins, enhanced by shimmering crotales and resplendent bells, create a sonic halo that hovers over the audience’s head. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Although proficient on a number of instruments including guitar, violin, cello and trumpet, Hunter never appeared on stage with the Grateful Dead. Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead’s poetic lyricist, dead at 78 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

He considered the new music superficial and disdained what he called the “high scoulding” sound of violins. Music Review: Fretwork Performs at Weill Recital Hall 2012-02-11T01:03:17Z

It’s entirely different from Chin’s earlier violin concerto, but equally powerful, and another worthy addition to the growing list of contemporary contributions to its genre. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

Stirling will launch a tour next month and said she’s excited when her fans — both young and old — bring their violins to her live shows. How violinist Lindsey Stirling learned to be brave 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The first violin, he said, was intended to be "fantastic, ornate and mercurial"; the second was "laconic and orderly"; the viola was "expressive"; and the cello was "somewhat impetuous." Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

The last work that I really studied in depth when I was playing violin was the Lalo “Symphonie Espagnole,” which was just performed here. Just Asking: Deborah Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

“Singularity” calls bluegrass to mind with its acoustic guitars, banjo and violin—until Mr. Dely’s trumpet enters briefly and, as if re-energized, the voices soar. ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

With its folksy violin motif and vaguely populist uplift, the song plays into EDM trends these days. Your week in Seattle music: Sam Smith, Elton John and more 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The first violins play a goading, syncopated refrain as the harmony lurches underneath, slithering to a resolution before launching into grand second subject. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Bright consonances and buoyant grooves in David Claman’s “Like This,” for violin and cello, suggested half of the Kronos Quartet in action. Music Review: Cutting Edge Concerts Continue at Symphony Space 2010-04-06T22:28:00Z

“Did Suzuki make up this entire story regarding Casals in order to sell his violin method to the West?” Mark O’Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Stravinsky’s toccata unfolds in animated strands, full of spiraling figures for the violin and bursts of dancing chords. A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

He stopped my playing and handed me his violin, a Stradivarius made in 1683. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

The appearance of a bald angel figure who plays the violin? At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Ehnes, who is the artistic director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society as well as an internationally renowned violin soloist, is a familiar and beloved figure here. A night of supercharged Bartok, sparkling Mozart at SSO 2014-03-14T18:08:01Z

Like Anderson, who played the violin while trapped in ice skates attached to their own blocks of ice, McLaren's alienation within the city is rendered beautifully, absurdly metaphorical. How downtown New York changed British theatre 2011-03-16T16:14:12Z

Then I started playing the violin, which I wish I still played. | Wild Belle's 'Backslider' 2012-10-17T15:21:44Z

The nine-piece ensemble on last year’s “”Morphogenesis” included clarinet, violin and vocals. ‘Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. I (The Embedded Sets)’ by Steve Coleman Review: The Complex Made Accessible 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Obviously enamored with her subject, Golia avoids matters that might not reflect as well on him, such as his various fallow periods or the quality of his violin playing and his painting. Lighting Out for the Territories With Ornette Coleman 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Nicolò Paganini, that giant of the violin, used it for dozens of short, charming pieces he wrote. The Week Ahead: June 19 ? 25 2011-06-17T18:54:18Z

“Back in Myanmar, I felt happy when I played violin, as it was my native country,” said Amir Ali, “Here, we are always sad, so I play to reduce my stress.” In exile in Bangladesh, a bittersweet revival of Rohingya culture 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

In 2011, his composition, a quadruple concerto Doppelgänger for two solo trumpets, two solo violins and double ensemble, premiered at the San Francisco Conservatory. Their Book Club for Two 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

This 2008 piece explores the aural effects of Beethoven's tinnitus, with dry, scratchy buzzing sounds from rosin-free violin bows which suggest a quill scratching on paper. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

It incorporates tales of women being turned into violins, violins being turned into women, and the Cremonese masters giving angelic names to their creations to prevent the Devil from corrupting them. The Gypsy Bible - review 2010-10-17T21:15:00Z

Indeed, that’s exactly what happened when Germain spent three days with the National Symphony Orchestra in early December assessing some 70 violins, violas, cellos and basses, and 110 bows. Ivory, at the tip of a complex issue for traveling orchestra members 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

But the heart of this work is its central slow movement, with its long stretches of pianissimo unaccompanied violin writing. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-28T22:53:58Z

Go on, give up the violin and make me look like a complete failure. Digested read: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua 2011-01-31T21:30:02Z

The violin is supported by plush, shifting harmonies in the orchestra. Jaap van Zweden Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Vieuxtemps' 19th century violin concertos were once the rage among the legendary virtuosos of yore. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla shows why she's moving up in latest L.A. Phil show at Disney Hall 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

They minimized vibrato, without being ostentatious about it, and Kenney had a particularly sweet tone on the first violin’s extravagantly decorated embellishments in the second movement. Touring Marlboro string quartet delights in first half of program 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

There’s the sound of explosions, barking dogs and a storm of violins, saxophone and percussion. Review | Akram Khan delivers a powerful indictment of war in ‘Xenos’ at the Kennedy Center 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Other times there are peaceful hymnlike sections, often like a lament, with the violin carrying the melody over plucked or drawn-out string accompaniment. At SSO, a new concerto and kudos all around 2012-01-22T20:29:04Z

The solo violin, led on a transcendent journey by an 18-piece droning ensemble, relies on the intensity of bent tones with otherworldly implications, and Koh made every note mesmerizing. L.A. Phil covers lusty Modern Italian with gusto 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Sean likes playing in the tree in his back yard and taking apart his skateboard, but he loves violin most of all. Joshua Bell’s Metro encore draws a crowd

With a beefy horn section, biting violins and a lead singer with a convincing Ethiopian quaver, the group brought back a live version of a style that was never recorded as vividly. Music Review: Globalfest at Webster Hall - Review 2012-01-09T23:18:48Z

Then at 8 p.m. on Friday, July 8, the violinist Gregory Fulkerson will perform in the first of two programs devoted to Bach’s complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin. String Delicacies of Bach and Beethoven at Bargemusic 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

I can imagine Mozart happily sipping wine at the Kaplan Penthouse while hearing a Bach partita for solo violin or being shaken and fascinated by a Thomas Adès string quartet. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

The sonata, divided into three movements, opens with fanciful flights in both instruments, pointillist figurations in the piano underlying the soaring violin melodies played with brio by Ms. Cuckson. Review: Pairing Beethoven With George Walker at Mannes College 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

She started studying piano at 7, and violin at 8. Through Music, Jen Shyu Explores the Unknown, Including Herself 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

After four performances, though, I can’t say I came away with any new insights — though I can reaffirm that he is very musical and makes very beautiful sounds on his violin.  Washington’s week with Joshua Bell revealed little that we didn’t already know 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

Jackson grew up working-class, in a family mostly uninterested in the arts; in school, he felt like a misfit, bad at sports, socially unredeemed by his talent for violin and piano. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Antonov was unable to keep the perilous harmonics that open the first movement in tune with Keylin’s violin, set lower than the cello by the composer. Do Russian musicians play Russian music better? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

This time it will be the concertos for violin, flute and clarinet. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z

Indeed, connoisseurs may overstate the differences: A recent set of studies demonstrated that even soloists couldn’t always distinguish between a Stradivarius and a new violin. The piano: Keys of the future 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Raised in San Francisco, the son of a prominent banker, he began studying classical violin when he was 5. Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

“While he was shaving, I was right next to him, giving it to him with my violin.” Music: Ballplayers Who Hit the Right Note 2011-06-24T19:50:28Z

For one thing, the familiar stentorian piano chords that accompany the opening soaring melody in the violins are not so loud in the second version and are played as arpeggios, or rolled chords. Classical CDs: Gerstein, Gaffigan do justice to Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

A soft whisper of violins yields to sighing, drooping sounds throughout the strings, then forthright brass fanfares begin; they recur throughout the piece, a kind of periodic annunciation. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

First, it must be said that Sinkovsky did not play the violin and sing at the same time, though I wouldn’t put it past him. Ponytail with passion: violinist, conductor and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky plays Benaroya Hall 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

But each poignantly taps into Bell's rich artistic history as a passionate virtuoso of the violin. Joshua Bell plays Bruch with Seattle Symphony 2012-01-05T21:45:03Z

The reminder of the title, though, turns the violins triumphant, swarming up to meet Longstreth’s voice. Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z

The same illusion was employed in Mr. Takemitsu’s filigree violin concerto “Far calls. Coming, far!,” in which the solo line travels alongside another instrument for brief stretches, discovering and discarding common traits. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

This urbane album doesn’t pair Reynaldo Hahn’s seldom performed violin sonata with its clearest precursors — the much better known sonatas of Fauré, whom Hahn revered. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

The Federal Way band plays Christian rock — a melodic brand infused with piano and violin riffs. Christian band New Heights breaking through 2010-12-08T21:39:00Z

Starring the Canadian actress Trish Lindström as Billie, a college professor whose mind is slipping, this is a quiet elegy that expresses its yearning in gorgeous strings: bass, guitar, cello and violin. ‘Emojiland’ and a Graceful Elegy at the New York Musical Festival 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

But if the six violin sonatas and partitas are to be performed complete, it is vital to perform them in the sequence Bach specified, Ms. Koh said, calling the set “an incredible musical arc.” Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z

The Galante performances, led from the violin by Mr. Biondi, were typically energetic and refined, and beautifully suited to the differing qualities of each work. Review: Europa Galante Tells the Story of a Musical Orphan in ‘Chiara’s Diary’ 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The finale grooved with verve, punctuated by howling double-stops in the violin. Review | Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

As he grew as a musician, Mr. Heras-Casado widened his horizons, learning violin and dabbling in composition. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

Professionals around the world play her violins, violas and cellos; one of her first instruments is played regularly at La Scala. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Sarah Geller’s violin did the work of a full string section. Music Review: John Lloyd Young Takes ‘Jersey Boys’ Style to Café Carlyle 2014-02-05T22:20:04Z

He’ll be back on the barge, June 24 and 25, with more Bach: the sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. Review: Joshua Bell Plays Tchaikovsky at David Geffen Hall 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

In this one a melodic line in the first violin unfolds over agitated underpinnings in the other strings. Music Review: Spiral Form and Other Compositional Modes of Fred Lerdahl 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z

A bit of violin work – how to hold the bow, do fret work. Elementary, my dear Cumberbatch 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z

The laptops, processing the violin sounds in real time and introducing new ones, scrambled the message through improvisation. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z

It was the girl's single-minded devotion to the violin that resulted in her mother's decision to fly with her once a week for three years from Seattle to L.A. to work with Lipsett. Next lesson for Simone Porter, 17: solo debut with L.A. Philharmonic 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

Paul F. Wells a former president of the Society for American Music, wrote in the Black Music Research Journal that slaves were most likely the earliest musicians to combine violin and banjo. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z

The piece is set to a musical playlist assembled and arranged — for accordion, flute, violin, cello and voice — by the violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

In the first movement’s somber prelude, he shaped the quizzical violin lines with affecting restraint, conveying the music’s improvisatory character. Review: The Philharmonic’s Concertmaster Steps Into the Spotlight 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

In “ocean,” each string of the cello is outfitted with a cotton thread attached to the strings of a nearby violin. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The son of a violin player, Antoine Domino Jr. was born on Feb. 26, 1928, to a family that grew to include nine children. Rock 'n' Roll Legend Fats Domino Dies at 89 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Gabriel Prokofiev, the grandson of the 20th Century composer Sergei Prokofiev, is presenting the world premiere of his new violin concerto at the BBC Proms. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Pacific” was accompanied by excerpts from another magnificent Harrison work, “Trio for violin, cello and piano,” where the rumblings of a kind of sonic Siberian peat bog yielded gradually to a shower of light. Mark Morris Dance Group’s many surprises flow naturally at GMU 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

He also chose not to have his own retail shop or to repair violins, so he has been free to make so many new instruments. Stringing together a passion and a livelihood 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

At school, she took violin lessons and sang in the choir. How the R&B Innovator Kelela Unlocked a New Level 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

His shoulders are so broad that the violin seems like a toy cradled in his arms. Review: In Itzhak Perlman's hands, Mendelssohn steals the show 2011-01-31T22:00:07Z

The boy wonder was first adored for his beguiling way with violin bonbons and the unbelievable maturity and direct expression he brought to the great violin concertos. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

An important and beloved staple in violin repertoire, the concerto helped solidify a Seattle fan base early in Salerno-Sonnenberg's career and appeared on her first professional recording, conducted by Schwarz. Mendelssohn fans: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in Seattle May 18-19 2012-05-17T19:59:12Z

Her sound, too, balances mastery with mystery; her recent recordings of those partitas and sonatas for solo violin trace Bach’s lines with a touch that feels like exquisite, if singular, penmanship. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

But with a lineup that includes saxophone and violin, the band’s tentacles also extend into klezmer, British folk, prog-rock, Minimalism, free jazz and more. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Bell played the part of an anonymous busker performing on a 300-year-old violin outside a subway station. Joshua Bell to play ‘tasty’ menu at Benaroya Feb. 5 2014-01-31T21:18:57Z

Here, the first violin scurries madly in its own offbeat fashion until the other three instruments, staid at first, let their hair down and join in. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

His brown and black violin, made by a local luthier, sounded better than it looked. Beverly Hills teacher finds violin and Vivaldi in a time of war 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

This is the music of what happens: a plume of dust rose from the violin. How to be hopeful: Colum McCann on the broken violin that played in a refugee camp 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Wang showed up in the United States speaking no English and with a rickety violin. Roman Totenberg’s stolen Stradivarius was once lost forever. Now, it plays again. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

That project is Hahn’s latest and most significant contribution to violin repertoire. Violinist Hilary Hahn to appear at Seattle’s Meany Hall 2014-04-25T23:43:15Z

In the famous Waltz from same, the violins snuck in elegantly with the main theme, phrases were caressed, dynamic contrasts ever so subtle. Dudamel celebrates a summer favorite to the beat of the USC marching band 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

It would be almost better if the violin were given crazy, percussive passages, attempting to “talk” to the orchestra. A novel, engaging concert from young violinist Niklas Walentin 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

At the Beacon, the Tallest Man on Earth was backed by five musicians playing a larger assortment of instruments, including French horn, violin, clarinet and pedal steel guitar. Review: The Tallest Man on Earth’s Solo Act Gets a Backing Band 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

So much of classical technique is mitigating instruments’ rough edges — in the violin’s case, the friction necessary to its sound, the bow hair snagging the strings over and over again. Review | Leila Josefowicz presents the violin, unfiltered, in Library of Congress recital 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

The songs here are in Hindi, Kannada and English, and the best tracks, Hey Bhagwan and I'm in Mumbai Waiting for a Miracle, are driven on by furious and inspired violin work from Manoj George. Raghu Dixit: Raghu Dixit 2010-04-29T22:00:00Z

Guitar often defers to violin, piano or bass, and percussion decorates more than it propels. Playlist : Music by Wild Flag, Lindsey Buckingham and the Raincoats 2011-09-10T00:08:45Z

Gorgeous phrases begin, first violins finishing what the second start, horns picking up strands and handing them off to woodwinds, which go someplace else. Mahler lives! Dudamel gives his most impressive performance yet with L.A. Phil 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Speaking intermittently, the venerable diva barks instructions at her young student, while Brian, the aforementioned artisan - played convincingly Michael Laurence - pontificates about the craft of making violins and the art of playing them. Review: Artist meets artisan in 'The Morini Strad' 2012-04-04T15:10:12Z

The playing was mostly fine, except for a prominent wrong note somewhere in the violin section in the Beethoven and an early brass entrance in the Mendelssohn. BSO at Strathmore skips the uncommon music in season preview 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

No one today would argue that Schumann’s piano accompaniments are necessary to make Bach’s solo violin music comprehensible. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z

I once had a violin worth roughly £20,000 "stripped": someone took the strings and the bow but left the more recognisable body behind. Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z

To paraphrase Rossini’s quip about Wagner, there were many beautiful moments — I keep thinking about a passing little ornament in the violins during the Adagio, tangy and exotic — but dull movements. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruch and Bruckner 2013-01-10T22:16:29Z

The fast-paced show was buoyed by a five-member band whose arrangements by the musical director and pianist Joseph Thalken featured accordion and solo violin, lending the music the ambience of a ’30s European hotel orchestra. Patti LuPone in ‘Faraway Places Part Two’ at 54 Below 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

At Bargemusic, he offers a traversal of Bach’s complete sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin that reflects his study of historically informed performance using a Baroque-style bow. Emotions Flip From Note to Note 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

They also played an early violin sonata by Mozart that hardly ever turns up in performance. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

In the 19th century when the modern design of the piano fully emerged and you had people like Liszt ... and it was really all about showing off – the same with the violin and Paganini. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z

Tony Cisek’s set — a forest of violin strings, delineating the rich Viennese musical milieu — evokes the thoughtful labors that have gone into all aspects of this revival, one of Folger’s best. Review | ‘Amadeus’ at the Folger will be music to your ears 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

He calibrated his voice exquisitely to the accompanying chamber ensemble, in which a solo violin acts like a wing man to the serenading singer. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Dials Up the Swoon Factor 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

A pops orchestra had better have a technically adept violin section if it performs “Fiddle-Faddle,” a joyous perpetual-motion piece alive with dizzying strands of 16th-notes for the violins. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Nearby, a gypsy hears the soldiers’ march and runs home, where his community gather around the fire as he plays a haunting, slow version of the song on his violin. How Twin Peaks led a fan into and out of trouble 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

David Stubbs The score of Whitechapel is approximately 17 times more sinister than what's happening on screen, all screeching violins in minor keys. TV highlights 13/02/2012 2012-02-12T20:00:17Z

From birdlike twitters among the violins and piano, the work moves through six deftly characterized movements of surging energy, jazzy vivacity and airy open-chord expanse. Music Review: Tobias Picker at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-10-09T21:55:17Z

Birtwistle's concerto nails one of the conventions of the genre with absolute assurance: Tetzlaff's violin line was always audible against the orchestra. Birtwistle premiere - review 2011-03-06T17:00:13Z

And then imagine the violin is your son. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z

Joseph bought the violin in a displaced-person’s camp, in exchange for a carton of American cigarettes, while he was waiting to be moved to America. A Holocaust Survivor’s Violin Finds a New Home 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

My daughter Kate loves horses, her violin and, above all else, her friends. Lives: Nice Girls 2011-02-25T15:30:00Z

An earlier snippet exists on his Facebook page, but the version he played onstage sparkled with an opulent violin intro. GWU alum Cautious Clay returns to town for a mixed show at the 9:30 Club 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

A soprano might be twinned with a violin, for instance; a baritone with a bassoon. Together, the Sebastians and Tenet Perform Motets 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

"I have no idea what happened. I’m completely on the ground. My violin is nowhere to be seen and I’m just like, why am I on the ground?" Wedding musicians sue hotel, vendors after tent collapse: ‘I thought I was going to die’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Schuller’s grandfather was a conductor in Germany, and his father played in the violin section of the New York Philharmonic for more than 40 years. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

“And if I were a violin player, I wouldn’t always play the same. Sometimes, it’s not the best idea, but it makes the live performance fun.” A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

The violins, with their rapid notes, kept getting overshadowed by the lower voices. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Also a skilled musician, who played the violin, bass and piano, Zamparelli performed in an Army band during World War II. Zamparelli, Howard Hughes’ Chief Designer, Dies 2012-09-10T13:41:51Z

She also wrote works for piano and violin, the instrument of her son, Paul Viardot. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

The cello evolved from the "bass violin", a generic name for a family of cello-like instruments appearing from the 1530s onwards – hulking, oversized violins mostly designed to be played while seated. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z

She earned a history degree at Cambridge, a master’s degree in violin performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a certificate in arts management at Birkbeck College, University of London. Brooklyn Academy of Music Chooses New President 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Beilman was especially impressive, with blazing fiddle solos in the Fourth Concerto and strong playing elsewhere on both violin and viola. ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at Alice Tully Hall 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Josefowicz, 33, a native of Ontario, Canada, moved with her parents to Los Angeles and began studying the violin at age 3. Adventurous violinist Leila Josefowicz to make a Seattle appearance 2011-03-31T20:38:06Z

The theft of my violin was also a theft of my identity. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Prodigy Loses Her ‘Soul Mate’ — a Rare Violin 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

At the center is a wardrobe; and inside is a violin, on which the boy begins to play the show’s opening theme. America’s Most Interesting Opera Destination? The Midwest 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Sitting first violin in Mendelssohn’s string octet, Mutter drove the fast tempos to the breaking point, adding more bends and folksy idiosyncrasies here than in the Vivaldi. Veteran violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter brings her group of proteges to Kennedy Center

The Dead Weather-esque title single heralds the new album perfectly: a blend of White’s signature guitar-heavy blues rock seasoned with some folksy charm in the form of a violin solo. Review: Jack White goes country on second solo CD 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Vigoda also sings, plays electric violin and does some “live looping — laying music down and recording over it” during the production. How Ernest Shackleton inspired a romantic musical 2014-04-21T22:58:58Z

And the reseating of the orchestra, cellos and basses displacing second violins on house right, was surely a retrograde step in stylistic terms. After the volcano, the show goes on at Seattle Symphony 2010-04-23T20:44:00Z

“I find this kind of perversely laughable that we turn to these kinds of figures for this. You can’t get that from being a disciplined violin player or an artist or a writer?” In vaccination battles, pro athletes become proxy players 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lee plans to warm up in the park to let his violin acclimate. Critic’s Notebook: Chamber Music Society Gears Up for Naumburg Bandshell 2013-08-20T21:02:07Z

Mr. Beilman played beautifully throughout the second half of the program, which featured four of Kreisler’s compositions for violin and piano and one arrangement. Review: Benjamin Beilman Goes Beyond His Violin Bonbons 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Anahit” is a violin concerto in a single, uninterrupted movement: a brief violin solo is flanked by two large sections combining that instrument and the full ensemble. Classical Music This Week: The New Season, Scelsi and Anna Netrebko’s Birthday 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Electronics and Violin Get Together, and Myriad Sounds Ensue For more than two centuries the preferred duo partner of the violin was the piano. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z

Besides Ms. Kihlstedt, who also plays violin, “Orphic Machine” features the trumpeter Ron Miles and the tenor saxophonist Rob Sudduth, blending or jostling by turns with Mr. Goldberg’s woodsy clarinet. Review: Ben Goldberg’s ‘Orphic Machine’ Influenced by Poetry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

The violins were tuning, the woodwinds warming up and the trumpets blaring bits of Mahler. Gustavo Dudamel in New York: Selfies, Hugs and Mahler 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

The piano part is as busy and melodic as the violin, fireworks are present, and thee are many cadenzalike passages in a dialogue between instruments where both musicians allowed the melodies to flow out. Itzhak Perlman, Rohan De Silva performed in perfect partnership | Classical review 2013-02-20T17:30:17Z

In between, Ms. Koh and Mr. Wosner played “Elective Memory,” a duo in three movements, lasting about 18 minutes, written as a response to that final Beethoven violin sonata. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music and at The Hague, and in 1988 became first violin of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Early-music maverick Andrew Manze makes guest appearance with SSO 2010-04-28T22:16:00Z

Her demeanor can be gleaned from the 1967 novel “Little,” a roman à clef by Louis Zukofsky about a violin prodigy. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

The piece began with fluttering violin drones that suggested beginnings and awakenings. Review | Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is both earthy and ethereal in Kennedy Center performance 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

Scored for alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone/crotales, piano, violin, cello and electronic sounds and conducted here by Ransom Wilson, “The Light Within” unfolds with a somber, insistent propulsion. Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘The Light Within’ Highlights Ensemble Program at National Sawdust 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The instrumental pieces, scattered through the program, were energetically played, and the ensemble was well balanced, with fine violin and vielle playing by Vita Wallace and agile lute and Baroque guitar accompaniments by Charles Weaver. Music Review: Early Music New York With Frederick Renz - Review 2011-12-26T22:37:30Z

Kirsty would take her violin out of the case and accompany him. Kirsty MacColl: the great British songwriter who never got her due 2012-09-29T23:05:11Z

“There’s really nothing else that works,” said Silver Spring violin maker Howard Needham, who is hoarding the Everclear he has left. What do college partyers, violin makers and cake decorators have in common?

This year I want to be Laurie Anderson and am looking for a good white suit and electric violin.” T Magazine: Trick or Treat at T 2010-10-28T13:00:00Z

Taking up the accordion as her principal instrument, she also learned to play violin, piano, French horn and tuba. Pauline Oliveros, Composer Who Championed ‘Deep Listening,’ Dies at 84 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

“The natives mastered the guitar, the violin and the songs, and the Spanish said they sounded like birds,” Ramón said. San Antonio missions preserve Native American history in Texas' first U.S. World Heritage site 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

He was also removed from his post as distinguished visiting professor of violin at Furman University in South Carolina. In wake of Post story about allegations, an opera director leaves the field 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

For this he sat beside the lutenist Paul O’Dette and played the strings of his violin like those of a guitar. Music Review: No Musicians Harmed in Playing This Concert 2010-12-14T06:08:55Z

The ensuing agitated outpouring unfolded with crisp attack in the violins, and the strings imbued the wistful middle section with soulful depth. Music Review: Lola Astanova With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2013-01-26T01:04:56Z

She took 15 years out of music to bring up her children, barely, if ever, picking up her violin during that time. Frances Andrade: 'a force of creativity' 2013-02-08T16:21:53Z

The first movement begins with one of the most soaring, glorious themes of any violin concerto. New York String Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

The work features an unusual entrance for the soloist in the opening movement, whose jaunty orchestral introduction is interrupted with a slow and elegiac violin aria. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z

About 30,000 visitors attended an open-house weekend at the Philharmonic that showed off the myriad sound-proof educational rooms where an array of drums, lutes, violins, trombones and other instruments await the young and curious. New Philharmonic takes wing above Paris periphery 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Two pieces by Eve Beglarian set the violin against electronic tracks. Music Review: Violinists, Plugged in, Bow, Pluck and Twang 2011-05-27T22:16:21Z

He began learning some of Hendrix’s guitar solos on the violin, and he decided that his repertory should embrace both classical music and pop. Music Review: Unplugging the Hendrix Experience 2011-03-03T21:18:08Z

In his diary on Dec. 17, 1940, he wrote of buying a number of master violins for use by German violinists. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z

Between classes, I hunched beneath the combined weight of my violin case and a book-stuffed backpack. How a violin helped me find my voice 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

The violin is caressed and attacked with every inch of the bow. Parts of the score are skittish. With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

He never tires of the Beethoven violin concerto, on the other hand, and said he learned something from each performance. The Violinist Augustin Hadelich Flourishes in New York 2010-04-15T22:18:00Z

And the orchestration includes a violin — not a traditional flamenco instrument. A Fenómeno of the Flamenco World 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

His Four Souvenirs, for violin or flute and piano, are a particularly hyper example: hyper-energetic in the opening Samba and closing Square Dance, hyper-sweet in the intervening Tango and "Tin Pan Alley." Shostakovich shines at Olympic Music Festival 2011-08-22T23:32:03Z

He was the son of violin virtuoso Efrem Zimbalist and Alma Gluck, an acclaimed opera singer. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., star of 'The FBI,' dead at 95 2014-05-03T04:51:11Z

More than 150 pages later, he had produced a document overflowing with arcane details, some eventually pared away, like a four-page description of how violin strings were made in the 19th century. The Carpetbagger: What the Writer Had to Edit From ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-16T23:00:12Z

While the violin solos are most difficult in their fugues and implied counterpoint, he said, the cello works more or less keep multiple voices within the same line. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

It will be intriguing to hear Mendelssohn’s popular violin concerto, often performed with romantic swagger, interpreted by Edward Gardner and the Academy of Ancient Music with the violinist Alina Ibragimova as soloist on Sunday afternoon. Mostly Mozart’s Big Tent Embraces George Benjamin, Dai Fujikura and More 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

An accomplished musician’s relationship with Southwest Airlines has hit a sour note, as he's claiming he was forced to remove himself from a flight for refusing to check his $80,000 violin. Violinist claims Southwest Airlines forced him to leave flight after he refused to check $80,000 instrument 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Grisey's three-part score for piano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello may be vastly more complex than "Become Ocean," but both spring from a briny sea of arpeggios. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Later in the piece, Mr. Smith hunched over his vibraphone with mallets and a violin bow, making cycles of damping and decay. Review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil at the Jazz Standard 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

At the very same lesson, Gingold was helping me discover the Mendelssohn violin concerto, with which I also fell in love. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Sarah Darling, who plays viola and violin as a member of Boston’s A Far Cry orchestra, wasn’t sure whether going online made sense. Entertainers promised to see us through the quarantine. Even they are running out of steam. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Few violin concertos are as tightly scripted as those making up Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Music Review: Europa Galante Brings Vivaldi to Zankel Hall 2014-02-12T22:55:33Z

The first Sam Ash store, in the Brownsville section, opened in 1924 with a few windup phonographs, a paltry selection of sheet music and a violin or two. Paul Ash, President of Music Store Chain, Dies at 84 2014-02-11T02:14:50Z

But while Ocean's Kingdom is not McCartney's first experiment with oboe and violin, this is his first time working so intensively with a ballet company. Paul McCartney composes orchestral work for New York City Ballet 2011-02-24T10:57:30Z

In the first movement, “Fragmented Time,” the violin plays a near-continuous line of buzzing, fitful notes, riffs and chords. Music Review: A Couple of First Encounters, One Including Musicians 2011-06-03T22:30:31Z

The NSO’s second violin section — to the conductor’s right — is composed of the loneliest people in the world. NSO review: Despite the stellar guest soloist Bohórquez, consistency is lacking

Besides the violins, how did she find living in Cremona? There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

“As fellow musicians can understand, checking in my violin is an absolute non option.” Violinist claims Southwest Airlines forced him to leave flight after he refused to check $80,000 instrument 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The violinist Leonidas Kavakos will join him, playing Sibelius violin concertos on Jan. 28 and 29. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

A local broadcaster reported a violin believed to be the rare Stradivarius was found in the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stolen US Stradivarius 'recovered' 2014-02-06T14:49:01Z

Growing up in Chicago and on the road, Mr. Rivers studied violin, piano and trombone. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z

Plucked violin fragments, atonal vocals and discussion of Lazarus on a morphine drip. Readers recommend: songs with special guests 2010-10-14T23:01:00Z

The day’s work is done; with violin, cello and clarinet in hand, music is being made. Should the Berkshire Museum sell its art? Why the answer matters to museum-goers from coast to coast 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Another began with creaky violin trills that spread into buzzing gestures, as the piano played rap-tap rhythms in its high register and ominous thick chords down low. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Following comments on the Today programme by presenter Justin Webb that the violin is more "difficult" than the guitar, two musicians have spoken out in defence of their instruments. Violin or guitar: Which is easier? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Ask the question ‘What are the attributes of great violins, and what makes this violin different than another?’ ” News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z

The breadth of virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh's passion for old and new violin repertoire would be disorienting if not for the deliberateness with which she builds bridges between past and present. Violinist Jennifer Koh bridges past and present 2012-03-15T20:58:04Z

“The voice of the violin helps me dance,” Mr. Carmona said in an interview, describing his affinity with the instrument’s weeping tone. A Fenómeno of the Flamenco World 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The orchestra — once again, I was glad to see, seated with the two violin sections divided to left and right of the conductor — responded to Morlot’s leadership with some equally fine playing. Mahler’s challenge triumphantly met at SSO | Classical review 2012-11-30T19:07:07Z

Matching the gently soaring violin solo of leader David Adams, soprano soloist Lisa Milne was at her most expressive in Beim Schlafengehen, drifting into Strauss's sweet sleep of oblivion where all questioning is past. Orchestra of WNO/Koenigs 2010-05-10T21:05:00Z

Its focus on solo violas, cello and violins in turn also made it a good companion to Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli. Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-09T18:51:30Z

The opening one offers Bach’s three solo violin sonatas, intriguingly interspersed with shorter pieces by Philip Glass and Bartok. String Delicacies of Bach and Beethoven at Bargemusic 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

He occasionally played trumpet and violin and, in the 1970s and 1980s, began to explore electronic and funk styles. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

In converting “The Four Seasons” for an instrument that cannot sustain like a violin, Avital often had to resort to rapid tremelos in the sustained lines of the slow movements of “Spring” and “Summer.” How much difference can one mandolin make? Bowl audience hears a fresh spin on 'Four Seasons' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

In this case, though, the acrimony erupted in an area that is usually much more placid: the market for children’s violin lessons. Mark O’Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

She learned to do everything herself, from producing the huge virtual beats that power Top 10 pop to playing violin for her own string parts. Grimes, a D.I.Y. Indie Sensation, Ramps Up Her Sound 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Fondest memento or memory: One of the jewels in the crown of the Museum of the Violin’s collection is the Stradivarius dubbed “Vesuvius,” one of the last violins made by the master. The high note in this family’s Italian vacation? Cremona. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

By contrast, Chinese parents strictly limit television, video games and socializing, accept no grades but A’s and insist on several hours a day of violin and piano practice, regardless of their children’s complaints. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Secrets of Success 2014-01-31T20:25:31Z

West must be playing, at best, fourth violin. 2010-02-06T05:50:00Z

"I can't imagine what my life would have been like without it," Staples says of her violin. Mandell Collection matches gifted musicians with vintage instruments 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

In the violin’s conventional range, any competent concert artist is expected not only to sound pitches but also to control attack, dynamics and expression. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

When Paganini published his 24 Caprices for solo violin in 1820, the technical limits of virtuosity were in flux. Review: Jennifer Koh Asks 32 Musicians to Respond to Paganini 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

The long rhapsodic build of Oliver Knussen’s “Reflection,” one of Knussen’s last works before his death in 2018, cast multiple violin personalities — fragile, pure, guttural — often jostling them together in a single phrase. Review | Leila Josefowicz presents the violin, unfiltered, in Library of Congress recital 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

I ask violin students to play a little viola. Pinchas Zukerman plays viola spectacular with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2011-02-10T20:50:07Z

The violin is a flexible instrument, excellent in solo and ensemble contexts, but I had never heard it accompanied by subatomic particles until experiencing Cloud Chamber, the latest piece by the Plymouth-based composer Alexis Kirke. Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music festival ? review 2011-02-15T19:00:01Z

“He was possibly the only mammal who enjoyed hearing me playing the violin.” Meet your tour guide to Australia, the wombat 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Sam Zygmuntowicz is one of the nation’s most prominent violin makers. News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z

This reminds me," he says, "of when I was in the last row of the second violins in the orchestra of my home town when I was young. Gustavo Dudamel electrifies young London musicians 2011-01-28T17:39:18Z

So far, Trifonov's works include a piano concerto, which was commissioned by the Cleveland Institute, and a double concerto for violin, piano and chamber orchestra. Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

I used to play the violin rather well, but upon moving to Washington in the mid-’90s, I stopped. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

I travel with it over my shoulder, and people smile at me and ask if it’s a violin. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

He held charity concerts in Japan after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami while many other performers canceled shows, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported, and played a violin made from wooden debris from the disaster. Ivry Gitlis, a violinist who spanned genres, dies at 98 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

The unconventional view was Oliver Knussen’s violin concerto, which is a “canonic” piece for no one but the composer and Josefowicz, who has performed it dozens of times. Review | Two ways of looking at a canon: the NSO goes Romantic 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

One obvious way they streamlined their task was by narrowing their inventory of still-life elements: wine glasses, bottles, coffee cups and musical instruments — violins and guitars — in different combinations, and that’s about it. Art Review: When Picasso Changed His Tune 2011-02-10T22:50:56Z

“Brian gave me my first record player,” he says, “and my first classical album, which was the Sibelius violin concerto.” The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z

In the first movement, it was absorbing to note how the orchestra built up not only volume, but also layers of sound, with mild cellos offsetting the bright, lacquered gloss of the violins. Music Review: Matthias Pintscher Leads Juilliard Orchestra in ‘Bereshit’ 2014-04-12T01:20:16Z

No doubt for some, the sight of Mozart’s violin tricked out in 21st-century gadgetry is sacrilegious. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

That the first half nevertheless offered moments of excitement was entirely because of the energetic performance of Augustin Hadelich, who threw himself into the virtuosic solo violin part with a passion bordering on impatience. Music Review: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Leads the New York Philharmonic 2012-10-20T02:50:07Z

For the last five centuries, give or take, the range of a violin bottomed out on the G below middle C, the pitch of the open G string. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

Pastoral violin melodies fill the section “In a Flowering Meadow.” Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

Of course, Haydn’s sunniness reasserted itself at the end of the quartet with a delightfully simple, lyrical theme for solo violin, beautifully played by Simin Ganatra. German composer-clarinetist shows his virtuosity 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

The final section, back in the music room, contained the only real “music” of the afternoon — an extended trio for harp, violin and glockenspiel that was euphonious and hymnlike. Music takes over every inch of the Phillips Collection 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy,” a luxurious work for violin and orchestra, closed the first half of the program. | New York Philharmonic: New York Philharmonic Unleashes Operatics Hidden in Brahms 2010-04-10T00:10:00Z

This Elo effect, in the case of “Lost on Slow,” is superimposed upon a selection of individual movements from six Vivaldi violin concertos. Dance Review: A Danish Modern Twist Updates Classical Ballet 2011-06-15T22:03:19Z

Russell sang the song perfectly, and when Thielen's violin joined him it was magical. The Head and the Heart hailed warmly at homecoming show 2012-09-16T18:28:05Z

The strumming of a sitar, the pounding of tablas, the plucking of a violin — these were coming from the hospital, now the makeshift home of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

In the beginning I thought it would be mainly about the theft of my Stradivarius — almost a eulogy for my violin. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Prodigy Loses Her ‘Soul Mate’ — a Rare Violin 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Her lessons didn’t last long, though: One day she tried to fix her broken school violin and messed it up even worse! Can one harmonica work magic for 3 kids living in troubled times? 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The studio also hired the London Symphony Orchestra to rerecord the classical tracks, section by section, to allow players to swap out separate “stems” — woodwind, percussion, violins — and replace them with instruments from the remixes. Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

The cellos and double-basses were incisive at the start of Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture, and the violins achieved gossamer delicacy as the love theme surged and flowed. Prom 32: EUYO/Bamert 2010-08-10T11:11:00Z

In the truest sign that this evening was more skillful than haphazard, the finale’s fugue, a flash of Bach, was satisfyingly precise — Cho and the violins aligned even in their fleet delivery. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Hay Wire,” with sliding motifs in the violin and cello, sounded sly, folksy and somewhat inebriated. New Music From Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Like her sister, Ada hopes to become a musician and also dreams of owning a Stradivarius violin, worth millions of pounds. Paraguayan landfill orchestra makes sweet music from rubbish 2013-04-26T14:02:55Z

The theme of the slow movement, first heard as a duo for violins, was elegantly shaped by Mr. Colombet and the second violinist, Gabriel Le Magadure. Music Review: Eb?ne Quartet at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 2010-08-19T21:21:00Z

Alsop is experimenting with new seating arrangements for the orchestra, here splitting the violin sections on opposite sides and moving the basses into a single row at the center back. BSO debut of ‘Oboe Concerto’ bursts with trills and colors 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

She recorded the dreams she had after falling asleep in incongruous public places, and played a violin weirdly adapted with shoddy electronics from Canal Street markets. Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side 2011-03-02T21:30:01Z

This 10-minute duo is filled with passages in which either the cello or the violin provides insistent accompanimental figures as the other breaks loose in elegiac, fitful melodic flights. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z

In the land of chamber music, violin, viola and cello are barely company, let alone a crowd. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

A lyrical dialogue unfolded between orchestra and solo violin, whose melodic lines were expressively performed here by Daniel Andai. Music Review: Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas at Alice Tully 2010-05-12T21:31:00Z

Though the title might lead you to expect something bucolic, this is a bustling, spirited work, with a wandering violin line floating atop a busy, highly ornamented piano part. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z

The violin, the voice of this modern-day Scheherazade, enters playing elegiac lines that keep breaking into skittish flights. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

At a dinner during my first weekend in town, half a lifetime ago, I sat next to a man named Fulvio, who told me he made violins for a living. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

There is a limited supply of superb violins, and they tend to be terribly expensive. Review: At 20, In Mo Yang Makes His New York Recital Debut 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Just days before, he was masked and inside the home of a friend who was a reliable instrument dealer, buying a violin for a student. Mariachis Play On, Their Music Unsilenced by the Virus or the Deaths 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

She achieves an extraordinary intimacy between her acoustic violin and the electronic sound. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

I wanted a violin for what seemed like ages before I got one. James Ehnes, happy at helm of Seattle Chamber Music Society, preserves his 17-year summer tradition 2012-06-27T22:18:03Z

Even the group that took responsibility for the attack, in a call to the Voice of Israel radio station, said it intended to damage Heifetz’s violin, not him. Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

In the slow movement, the second cellist plays in amorous dialogue with violin, while the other three string instruments purr gently underneath. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

This resulted in not only rethinking everything Menuhin knew about music but also about violin technique. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The title track is handled by the Unthanks, with the thoughtful voices of sisters Rachel and Becky backed by piano and violin. Jon Boden, the Unthanks and others: Oak Ash Thorn - review 2011-02-17T22:30:01Z

"It was Stevie's concept actually," says Sarah Martin, the violin player. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style: Laura Barton interviews the indie heroes 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

Mr. Litton has already hired some new players for the 62-member orchestra, including a principal trombonist and a violist, and will hold violin auditions soon. The Conductor Andrew Litton, Finding a Different Tempo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

While Nigel Westlake’s violin flurries froth up suspense whenever possible, the film has more impact simply letting the women pause to soak in the beauty of the ocean. ‘Blueback’ Review: A Heart for the Ocean 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The piece is so full of double stops that it sounds as if two violins are playing simultaneously – or, as Hahn once noted, “like conversations with yourself.” In a concert of old and new, Hilary Hahn enchants 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

It begins mysteriously, as the violin plays cosmic-sounding harmonics that float high and low, like spectral arpeggios. Review: At 20, In Mo Yang Makes His New York Recital Debut 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Some of the “Songs Without Words” are given in Mendelssohn’s original piano setting, others in an arrangement by Friedrich Herrmann for piano and violin. Mark Morris’s ‘Words,’ a Premiere at Fall for Dance 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Hearing Christian Tetzlaff play Bach’s sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin, some of the most intellectually stimulating and emotionally fulfilling music ever written, on Thursday evening, I kept thinking of a child’s coloring book. From Christian Tetzlaff, Violin Sonatas and Partitas 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The violinist who almost singlehandedly defined the art of violin performance for an entire era. Jascha Heifetz's vast recorded legacy lives on 2011-06-08T13:53:00Z

Westhoff’s music was featured in a program of Baroque music that explored the roots of the modern violin and featured excerpts from “Air: A Baroque Journey,” Mr. Hope’s recent Deutsche Grammophon CD. Music Review: No Musicians Harmed in Playing This Concert 2010-12-14T06:08:55Z

Mr. Kavakos dispatched the intricate, dazzling violin part with gleaming tone and brilliance. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z

You frequently see soloists conducting from the keyboard or with violin in hand, joining a long tradition but not quite freeing themselves from their instrumental origins. Soloist-turned-conductor impresses with NSO’s Mahler 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Wagner seeps through every page of the Poème; it's like a yearning, doomed love scene from one of his operas with – instead of a soprano – the gleaming song of Ysaÿe's violin. LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes 2012-08-29T21:53:45Z

After conquering the violin, Mr. Zee taught himself the viola, then the cello, then the bass. Possessed: A Fashion Career Starts With a Violin 2011-08-26T22:51:54Z

The orchestral heft of the added strings — nine violins, three violas, two cellos, and a double bass — further burnished the dusky glow of many sections in the Brahms. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z

With my violin by my side, I found my voice. How a violin helped me find my voice 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

She accompanies herself on acoustic guitar and sings crisply and vividly in tune, probably thanks to years of violin study while growing up in Mission Viejo, in Orange County. Singer Kina Grannis: 300,000 jelly beans can't be wrong 2012-05-11T03:20:00Z

The violins and cello grow darker and more severe as the search goes on. The Unthanks 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z

A limited number of violins exist from this golden era of string instrument craftsmanship in Italy. Review: At New York Philharmonic, a Soloist but Not His Violin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

He continued to play the violin, but in recent years the instrument became too difficult for his aging hands to handle. Joe's Violin: a Holocaust survivor, a schoolgirl and an unlikely friendship 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

The works and performances were just as pleasant as this vision of history, with harmless agreement between Mr. Mazumdar’s consummate sitar playing and Mr. Hope’s violin. Music Review: ?East Meets West,? With Daniel Hope at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-10-31T21:34:05Z

Likening his loyalty to Chuck to the musicians on the Titanic, Oliver says: “I offered you a lifeboat. You picked up a violin. Happy fiddling, Bryan.” ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: More Wendy, Please 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

The fest that bills itself "Classical Music with a View" opens this week with "A Poet's Love," a concert featuring Telemann's Fantasy for solo violin and Gerswhin's "Summertime." Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-08-03T20:19:04Z

While I’m in my office, a sitter drives my daughter to violin and French lessons, swim team, the Smithsonian’s home-school science program. Motherlode Blog: Owning Up to Being a Home Schooling Parent 2014-01-23T01:11:08Z

Versus if you were playing a violin, you would do that all manually. The Strange Business of Scoring ‘Stranger Things’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The evening’s second concert featured String Noise, the enterprising violin duo of Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, who are married. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z

“I’m also going to make the electric violin be the main voice you hear,” he added. | West Orange: Ed Palermo to Perform at Luna Stage in West Orange 2012-07-21T04:03:05Z

Morini conducts a music lesson in her posh parkside apartment as the violin maker simultaneously addresses the audience from his workshop. Review: Artist meets artisan in 'The Morini Strad' 2012-04-04T15:10:12Z

Fast- forward to today: Now she can text Hansard whenever she likes and recently played violin on Irglova's upcoming album. 'Once' star Elizabeth A. Davis celebrates Tony nod 2012-05-10T11:18:10Z

This program of all six Bach sonatas for violin and harpsichord was the most recent of several appearances in the past couple of years around Washington. Violinist Pamela Frank presents a rich program of all six Bach sonatas 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Born into a working-class family in Stoke – he kept traces of the accent all his life – he had a good practical musical education, studying violin and cello, and playing the organ in local churches. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

Ms. Anderson treated the verses of “Always Crashing in the Same Car” as a recitation punctuated by her electric violin. Review: Remembering David Bowie, With One Artist and One Song at a Time 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Seven Muses in slinky night robes sang solos — channeling Cleopatra, Endymion and Medusa — to haunting live strains of violin and cello. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The festival's namesake of course figures highly here, with performances of his cello suites, the St. Matthew Passion and keyboard and violin partitas. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

The pièce de résistance, however, was hidden in a violin case: a Thompson submachine gun. Two Spies, Two Opposing Sides, One Fast Friendship 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

While Canto V opens in lush tonal harmony, the frequency of dissonance is heightened, until in the last four minutes, the violins soar together in an arching series of chromatic clusters. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Once Ejiofor said yes to McQueen, he went into preparation mode, learning to play the violin and immersing himself in Louisiana plantation culture. In '12 Years a Slave,' all eyes on actor Chiwetel Ejiofor 2013-10-17T15:23:36Z

You get the notes, then you move into the music sheets, he does the horn construction, the violin construction, you see the song development. Major Beach Boys memorabilia being auctioned off 2013-04-19T11:15:12Z

He loved dancing, he said, and at Erasmus Hall High School, in Flatbush, he studied violin because he was “too short to play the bass well.” Harold Perrineau Finds His Way 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

Wyn Davies conducts with a panache that locates Lehár's subtler colours – the violin nocturne that precedes the final act is every bit as exquisite as the rambunctious waltz. The Merry Widow ? review 2010-10-18T21:00:00Z

In the original quartet the tension between the Grim Reaper and the maiden is expressed by the tussle between the violin and the cello in the Andante’s variations. Music Review: Reliving Schubert?s Classic Tussle With Death 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z

Daniel Hope’s violin lacks the lustrous sound the scores would need to at least be palatable in small doses; Sting’s cameo appearance on Eisler’s “The Secret Marriage” adds little to no street cred. Classical Playlist: Sting, Dvorak, Monteverdi Choir and More 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

He began playing violin at 2 1/2. Violin prodigy among Jefferson Awards recipients 2012-03-06T17:11:41Z

A seashell is meant to hold the sound of the universe, while Einstein himself sits downstage sawing away on his favorite musical instrument, the violin. A Minute With: Theater director Robert Wilson on 'Einstein on the Beach' 2013-10-16T10:01:52Z

Toy drove the music as Sevilla embellished it, and such pithy numbers as “Been Around” sounded close to their recorded versions, even without bass, violin, piano and multiple guitars. Lisa Said, a country singer of two countries, brings Eastern-tinged Americana to Iota 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Composing late at night when he was about 13, he would leave notes on the kitchen table for his younger sister, Carolin, asking her to try extended techniques on her violin. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

When I was leading Haydn's Creation, I played the passage depicting snow in rather a fluffy way – how I thought snow should sound on the violin. Letter: Sir Charles Mackerras obituary 2010-07-27T17:31:00Z

The latter is particularly full of Chamberlin music, including oboes, violins and cellos on opening track Monday, flutes on Knock Yourself Out, solo voice on Cubes, and strings on Later Monday. From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

Classical-music lovers are so accustomed to the words “Schumann” and “violin concerto” that many might not notice, at first glance, that those two terms are not often linked. Midori fails to sell little-known Schumann to NSO audience

His coffin was carried down the street to a local hall, with his uncle, playing Danny Boy on the violin, walking ahead of the procession. ‘It was an incredibly enriching day’: the families taking control of death 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

Its construction is a compromise between an acoustic ideal and human limits: For its sound to bloom as effortlessly as that of a violin or cello, its neck would need to be impossibly long. Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

His flights of fancy on the sopranino recorder relied on elaborately soulful ornamentation in the slow movement, accompanied by two violins and viola that played with gossamer grace. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

“You have to come out of this big massive sound of tutti violins, and then all of a sudden you are a soloist,” Mr. Dicterow said. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

At age 90, he led the Colburn Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's violin concerto and Holst's "The Planets" at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Neville Marriner, L.A. Chamber Orchestra music director and 'Amadeus' maestro, dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Earlier this month a Stradivari violin that had been valued at as much as $10 million went unsold at Christie’s, Bloomberg reported. Rare Stradivari Viola Fails to Attract Buyer 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Live, Vernon supplies additional guitar or violin, but any additional tweaks to their formation here are unlikely to be at the expense of their singular melodic clarity. This week's new live music 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

The violins’ bow work in the following fast passage was light, crisp and joyful. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

Along with that lush violin concerto, several Knussen chamber works are on the bill with works by Elgar and Brahms in the Symphony's Nov. 20 chamber-music series. Q&A with composer/conductor Oliver Knussen 2011-11-10T22:22:05Z

A Stradivarius violin, maybe; but not a plane. At Auction: A Glenn Curtiss-Designed Flying Boat 2010-04-12T21:30:00Z

The quartet, illuminated from above as if caught in sunlight streaming through a high window, repeatedly played keening laments, at times joined by Ms. Anderson’s keyboard or electric violin. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z

For all its jagged cuts and shrieking violin stabs, it somehow seems as substantial as an entire second act, as if half an hour's dramatic incident has been compressed into one dense and horrible mass. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z

A lot of bands are real folkie or quiet, singing real soft and playing accordions and violins and traditional instruments in a subdued manner. Four women unafraid to rock (just don't call them ballsy) 2011-09-10T16:01:00Z

And first associate concertmaster Nathan Cole's elegant, understated violin solos were as well suited for a summer's night as they were for smoothing together a rambling score's rough spots. Leonard Slatkin is traditional and bracing at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Her father was a diplomat, and she spent her early years in Germany and Austria, studying violin and piano at the Vienna Conservatory. Léo Marjane, a Music Hall Star in Occupied France, Dies at 104 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Unlike "Dear Heather," an underproduced album full of dinky-sounding keyboard, "Old Ideas" features acoustic instruments: violin, slide guitar, trumpet, lightly brushed drums. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z

Born in Athens, Currentzis studied piano and violin at a young age. Russian conductor joins Seattle Symphony for Shostakovich 2011-03-11T21:29:04Z

“I changed a lot of nitty-gritty violin details,” Quint says. Perspective | With ‘Roots,’ violinist Randall Goosby makes a first impression with lasting impact 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Heavy vibrato, especially from the first violin and cello, occasionally obscured the center of the pitch. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

I remember a girl who sat next to me on that rug one year when I was five, maybe six, dressed in a purple dress, neat as a Laura Ashley violin lesson. Hollie McNish: ‘I couldn't believe that Santa knew my name. Then he pulled out the presents …’ 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Even more intriguing, Mr. Chandler offers what is billed as the world premiere recordings of concertos for violin “in tromba marina.” Classical Playlist: Brahms, Vivaldi and Tallis 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Frenetic and meditative by turns, the work is divided into four sections, beginning with “Mirage,” in which the free-spirited violin line unfolds in fanciful, virtuosic and increasingly frenetic outbursts, here brilliantly played by Ms. Josefowicz. Esa-Pekka Salonen With Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z

It was easiest to concentrate on the many beautifully shaped details, especially violin and offstage posthorn and, despite some rough moments, the exciting brass fortissimos. Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

His mother was a secretary; his father was a professional boxer who taught himself the violin and later opened two music schools. David Nadien, Philharmonic Concertmaster, Is Dead at 88 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Musical details, including sketches of cellos and violins woven into carpets, are featured throughout the hotel, as are caricatures of prominent musical figures by the Czech artist Josef Blecha. In Budapest, a Hotel of a Different Note 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Like that of Paganini, whom contemporaries suspected to be in cahoots with the Devil: How else to explain his wizardry on the violin, which surpassed everyone else in technique and brilliance? Martin Frost at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The final notes — is that a tiny chime glancing off violin harmonics? — sound like the sun igniting a metallic vein in a rock. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Haas uses just about every sound and combination of sounds a violin, viola and cello can make. Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z

“I was pretty much playing violin all the time.” For a Major Debut, a Young Violinist Gets Personal 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

The first piece is mysterious, almost aphoristic, just tentative piano chords and a quizzical violin line. Music Review: Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen at Frick Collection 2013-12-09T21:56:59Z

While waiting in a displaced person’s camp in Germany in 1947 for resettlement in the United States, Feingold swapped a carton of American cigarettes for a violin. Joe's Violin: a Holocaust survivor, a schoolgirl and an unlikely friendship 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

Imagine having someone in your living room playing the violin as horribly as humanly possible. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z

It was able to produce new and original sounds as well as sounds from instruments such as the violin and flute. Jean-Jacques Perrey, leader in electronic pop music, dies at 87 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

It opens with an opulent melody for violin, played with lustrous sound and refinement by Ms. Hahn. Jaap van Zweden Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Most of Bach’s harpsichord concertos, she explained, were composed initially for other instruments, often violin. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z

Silence often operates the way the violins do in “Jaws,” as a warning that something sinister awaits. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Flutists Joachim Becerra Thomsen and Sandy Hughes made lively work of the lead parts in the Concerto No. 4, and Batjer was just agile enough to nail the violin runs at the ensemble’s fast tempo. L.A. Chamber Orchestra carries on a different holiday tradition: Bach's Brandenburg Concertos 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Silver said he added percussion, but wanted the remix to be somewhat abstract and accentuate the percussive parts of the violin playing. The Remix Grammy: For the Art and Science of the Musical Cocktail 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Given the events unfolding in Kurdistan, I assumed violin lessons were not going to happen. Beverly Hills teacher finds violin and Vivaldi in a time of war 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Police say a robber used a stun gun on Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond in a car park after a performance, then fled with the violin. Stolen US Stradivarius 'recovered' 2014-02-06T14:49:01Z

One of the El Sistema teachers visiting Britain from Venezuela, a veteran of teaching children from the poorest areas how to play the violin, recently outlined her method, which is, basically, no method at all. El Sistema in Britain: social projects, with strings attached 2010-07-08T15:43:00Z

He didn’t have summer camp, swimming lessons, soccer league, violin practice, a Mandarin tutor or anything that could even remotely be called an “enrichment activity.” Motherlode Blog: The Genius of Unstructured Summer Time 2012-04-20T16:15:07Z

Eventually, the King smashes up a violin and exits the stage with percussionist in hot pursuit. Hebrides Ensemble – review 2012-11-13T19:00:06Z

This shifting, mercurial work, alive with gurgling rhythmic figures and skittish violin bursts, was inspired by three Chagall paintings of Old Testament subjects. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z

At the start of the first movement, when the violin emerges with a searching theme over subdued rumblings in the orchestra, Mr. Zimmermann played with lean yet gleaming sound and melancholic beauty. Review: At New York Philharmonic, a Soloist but Not His Violin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The resulting canvas evolved through breathy flute, sinuous bassoon, a skittish violin frenzy and snippets of trumpet melody. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Showcases the Work of Pauline Oliveros 2013-08-21T21:37:54Z

He played the saxophone and dabbled on other instruments, like the guitar, violin and flute, but "the harmonica spoke to me," Blue said. Sugar Blue played harp with the Rolling Stones 2011-01-06T22:10:05Z

Thursday brings the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra to Carnegie with a program that includes Wolfgang Rihm’s new Duo Concerto for violin and cello. Classical Music This Week: Previn News, Solos Spotlight and Zelenka 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

It conjures up Bennett's father playing the violin sweetly – with his butcher's hands smelling of meat and his perfect pitch – and Bennett, the sensitive, scraping the notes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z

The exhibition presents a black silk velvet suit from 1840 worn by the General, as well as his teensy boots and Lilliputian 1845 violin. ‘Circus and the City’ at Bard Graduate Center Galleries 2012-09-20T22:40:07Z

But this second violin concerto is again another turning point for me, because I was really enthusiastic about Leonidas’s playing, and it was something I’d never heard before. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a page that is unusually sparse for Brahms, alternating between music for the violin and cello, in duet, and the piano alone. A Lullaby, a Caress: Yo-Yo Ma, Ax and Kavakos on Brahms 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Here the high-and-mighty trumpet, lofty solo violin, middling oboe and lowly recorder uncharacteristically perform interchangeable lines of undifferentiated passagework: There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Piano players’ brains look different from those of violin players. Do Men and Women Have Different Brains? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

An especially noteworthy achievement was his recording in the 1960s of Paganini’s 24 caprices for solo violin. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z

The movie opens on a day seemingly like any other, although there’s a pronounced elegiac cast to the instrumental music and the piercing violin notes. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

At 11, she played piano, the harpsichord, the violin, and sang in the church choir, but suddenly, her interest in music faded. What happened when I discovered my brother was a sexual predator 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

The museum already houses the Messiah violin, said by aficionados to be one of the most famous violins in the world. Biggest UK Stradivarius show planned 2013-05-14T17:13:02Z

To this she has created an allegorical narrative of a musical bird stabbed with violin bows by a thief meant to represent the modern drives of "speed, greed and media." Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

The rock core of piano, bass, guitar and drums gained color and range from the slide trombone, trumpet and violin, and the inventively mashed-up rock numbers revved the show into a very high gear. Review | The fabulous Taylor Mac gives D.C. a sample of his reinvented Americana 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The disparity between the relatively straightforward violin part and more developed keyboard writing suggests Schnabel’s greater comfort in composing for piano. Review | Jenny Lin plays Schnabel’s piano works at the Library of Congress 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Azumah Nelson grew up with either a book, camera or violin in his hand, he said, raised by parents who emigrated from Accra, Ghana, to England as teenagers. For Caleb Azumah Nelson, There’s Freedom in Feeling Seen 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

The program concluded with Brahms’s Trio in E flat for horn, violin and piano, written during a working holiday in Baden, a spa town near Vienna. Music Review: The Chamber Music Society Presents a Program at Alice Tully Hall 2010-05-05T21:45:00Z

In a way, the violin is all that holds the movement together. Music Review: A Couple of First Encounters, One Including Musicians 2011-06-03T22:30:31Z

Just how crazy is it to expect a single violin to coax us toward utopia?  With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Though at other concerts the group plays with violin, lap steel, mandolin and more, last night it was about guitar. It's a rock picnic as KEXP Concerts at the Mural series opens 2011-08-06T17:43:57Z

As expressions of Bach’s virtuosity, solo pieces for cello, violin and harpsichord dotted the evening. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

They all played violins if I remember rightly, and with their white, white hair they looked like three little blond ducks. Alison Moyet: 'I smashed all my gold discs. There were hundreds' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z

For “Athena,” she kept the core of her music — the call-and-response of her voice and violin — but brought in producers and collaborators to enrich and vary her sound. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Both the violin and piano lines were, for the most part, democratically divided here among the strings. Superb program shows off virtuosic technique 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

“By the same token, if I had had a violin there, I might have been a great violinist today.” Ranan Lurie, Political Cartoonist With a Global Pen, Dies at 90 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Five facts and things * There are fewer cellos in orchestras than violins because they produce a greater volume of sound. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z

Mr. Basinski, a shortstop, said he studied violin for 16 years, practicing three or four hours a day before making it to the Dodgers in 1944 out of the amateur circuit. Music: Ballplayers Who Hit the Right Note 2011-06-24T19:50:28Z

Advertisement After the war ended, Mr. Harnick enrolled at Northwestern University, enticed by the school’s annual revue, “The Waa-Mu Show,” and planning to study violin. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Busier Than Ever at 91 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Weissmuller’s king-of-the-jungle yell was reportedly bolstered by mixing in the sound of a hyena, a camel, a dog, a violin and an opera soprano. ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The monotonous music — piano, then techno, then violin and cello — doesn’t help. ‘Wild Grass,’ by Beijing Dance Theater, at Next Wave 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The musical accompaniment consists of drums and cymbals — occasionally played by the dancers — flute, voice and sometimes violin or harmonium. The Indian Monks’ Dance, Flowering With the Aid of Women 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Noah’s Flood” by Benjamin Britten I used to play the violin in the school orchestra. Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

That means that the second violin, usually second from left from the audience’s perspective, could, as Mr. Richards put it, “take one for the team.” Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Muhly's own pieces for piano, violin and viola were tremendous: passionate dialogues. Wozzeck; A Scream and an Outrage – review 2013-05-18T23:05:43Z

And there was this line in the song, 'It's a lot like playing the violin / You cannot start out like Yehudi Menuhin.' Mutual fans Franz Ferdinand and Sparks team for 'FFS' album and tour 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

Slender and glamorous, Mutter produces a violin tone that glistens like molten platinum but solidifies into adroitly shaped musical phrases solid as concrete buildings. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Cue the world’s smallest violin as the One Percent escape to their country homes — or to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where many are staying during the rehabilitation. Condo wars: How a water leak turned into a $30 million lawsuit 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

She has been fitting in a lot of violin practice. The golden hour: 15 ways to change your life in a work-from-home lunch break 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Even slightly outlandish deployments — a mere two violins set against a battery of two cornettos and three sackbuts in the “Sonata Sopra ‘Sancta Maria’ ” — sounded in balance. Music Review: Monteverdi Gets Fresh Look During Clarion-Collegium Week 2010-04-21T22:19:00Z

In fact, playing certain passages with the right “feathery” softness on the violin and piano, while still projecting, is the biggest challenge of the music. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z

Brahms’ piano transcription was returned to a Bachian harpsichord but tuned a little differently, so that it sounds closer to a Baroque violin yet also with a very distant flavor of Lou Harrison’s California. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Once I was hired by a Frenchman to track down a rare, left-handed violin, buy it for him in the US, then personally escort it to France. Gadgets, drug mules, cheating husbands: my life as a private investigator 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Their instruments included a cello, violins and even a Steinway & Sons grand piano. Mobile orchestra tries to bring cheer to Venezuelan streets 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Roy Jr. began his musical training on piano and also learned flute and violin. Roy Campbell Jr., Avant-Garde Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 61 2014-01-19T04:14:27Z

The most obvious of those threads is the number seven: seven acoustic instruments — violin, viola, cello, flute, harp, percussion and harpsichord along with synthesizer, augmented by electronics — traverse seven movements, each cast in seven sections. Exploring the Magic of Seven 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z

Some pieces are arrangements of works for other forces, made at Hoitenga’s request, such as “Tocar,” originally for violin and piano, made here into a striking version for flute and harp. CD reviews: A conductor takes risks with Tchaikovsky 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

She was started on the violin aged four, practising every day with her father, an aeroplane engineer. Viktoria Mullova: from Russia in a blond wig 2011-08-16T21:30:00Z

There was a processional element — and a good deal of unadulterated worship — in last week’s visit to New York City of another musical relic: Mozart’s violin. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

“I love the violin as a lead instrument.” | West Orange: Ed Palermo to Perform at Luna Stage in West Orange 2012-07-21T04:03:05Z

Even a placid passage led by a wistful solo violin was shaken up by the stirring of a wayward line in the basses. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

He grew up in Harlem and was a violin student until he accidentally blew off the tips of several fingers on his right hand after picking up a cherry bomb just as it exploded. Bruce Langhorne, guitarist who inspired Bob Dylan to write ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ dies at 78 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The eerie quiet of a night spent far from the city in the middle of the woods was broken at 6 a.m. by the mellifluous sound of a violin playing “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning.” Who knew nirvana was tucked away in Virginia’s back roads?

The program includes related exhibits at other museums and several performances using the violins. Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust 2012-04-13T20:05:11Z

He performed and recorded repertory for violin and piano with his daughter, Pamela, including Beethoven’s 10 sonatas, recorded in the mid-1990s. Claude Frank, Pianist Admired for Performances of Beethoven, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

That same night, Christian Tetzlaff had set off like a rocket in Brahms's violin concerto. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z

Today, there may be a waning interest in the sound of the violin, which many people used to consider sweet but now associate with sappiness and headaches. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

And what should appear but “Turkey in the Straw” in the violins, scarcely to be heard behind the blaring trumpets and under the accumulated weight of other instruments when everything was put back together. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z

Tom Seligman conducted; at one performance the lead violin’s playing was excruciatingly flat. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z

The two were equal partners in the first half of the program, where both Beethoven and Franck in their respective sonatas gave as great a role to the piano as to the violin. Itzhak Perlman, Rohan De Silva performed in perfect partnership | Classical review 2013-02-20T17:30:17Z

Hearty yet shadowy, fanfarelike orchestral bursts alternated with his wistful playing of ruminative passages for violin, rich with Slavic fervor and plaintive lyricism. Review: A Fast-Rising Czech Conductor Leads the Philharmonic 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

I do not, in fact, play the violin. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Rather than give up, Bird built property on this seeming no-man’s land — a career based on his trademark violin, whistling and witty lyrics. Andrew Bird gets confessional, at last: “I really wanted to make a less whimsical, more visceral, grab-you-in-the-gut kind of record” 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Antonio Stradivari made his violins from it three centuries ago. Piano nobile 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The rough-hewed second movement plodded along somewhat rudely, the second violins hacking away unceremoniously at the first statement of the Ländler. BSO bids a reluctant farewell with Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Strathmore 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Berger stayed in Tulsa while her father recuperated and found she had little to do, so she gave Fredell violin lessons. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

For example, his violin had been burned by his father, but in his daydreams the instrument delivers an imagined child to the Grammy Awards. Newly Released Books 2011-02-16T22:45:21Z

Could it be that they came from a lover he had murdered and whose soul was now enslaved by the sound of his violin? Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

As the Latin title suggests, time flies, as do violin bows. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z

She was a secretary, she was good with numbers and played the violin, but not professionally. Herb Alpert: ‘If someone needed my father’s help, he was always there for them’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Officers found the violin in a suitcase in an attic. Stolen Stradivarius violin recovered in Milwaukee attic 2014-02-07T04:32:23Z

Throughout January, four musicians playing two violins, a viola and a cello will work through hundreds of scales and arpeggios, using different techniques with their bows, or plucking the strings. To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

And Brahms was a lifelong companion of Stern’s, not only with his Violin Concerto and Double Concerto, but also with his three violin sonatas and other chamber works. Music Review: Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, With Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax 2014-02-24T22:40:33Z

Shipps was an influential and highly sought after violin professor, Acting U.S. Retired violin professor pleads guilty to child sex charges 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

The Devil takes the soldier’s violin, but leaves him a book guaranteeing untold riches. ‘Feather Gatherers’ Gives a Twist to a Russian Folk Tale 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

“I want the music to soar here,” Jenkins had told him, and the result was those rhapsodic violin arpeggios. ‘Moonlight’ screens to live music, packed crowd at downtown L.A.’s Million Dollar Theatre 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Then, something will happen in the orchestra -- a pungent harmony, a twitch of somber counterpoint -- and the violin responds with a wafting melodic line in its shimmering high range. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z

There were stations where it was possible to try the violin, oboe or French horn. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert 2013-05-26T21:47:04Z

Contrasts" for violin, clarinet and piano; Mendelssohn's "Piano Trio in D minor, Op. Seattle Symphony chamber series offers rarely played Bart?k work 2011-05-05T19:50:05Z

The Olney incarnation of “The Mikado” will feature actors playing guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, violin, flute, accordion, harmonica, percussion and toy piano. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The timpani rumble under two violins intertwining: a forlorn yet sweet duet over an abyss. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

It wouldn’t get in the way of her flamboyant violin playing. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Young Efrem studied the violin too but he developed more interest in acting. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., star of 'The FBI,' dead at 95 2014-05-03T04:51:11Z

And among the excellent strings, occasional but important antiphonal passages benefited noticeably from Schwarz's preferred left-right splitting of the two violin sections. Too few hands applaud Gerard Schwarz's powerful return 2012-04-27T17:03:04Z

Leda Sánchez Bettucc, 55, a geologist in Montevideo, Uruguay, plays a game with her daughter to guess whether vibrations are from the blender, the vacuum cleaner or her son practicing the violin. ‘The Unheard Symphony of the Planet’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

He brought a burnished sound and intensity to Ysaÿe’s dear slot: Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 “Ballade,” written — like all his violin sonatas — for a close musician friend. Music Review: Aleksey Semenenko, Young Artist Winner, at Merkin Hall 2014-02-06T23:34:15Z

He is not charged with stealing the violin. Prison note details how priest allegedly conspired with mob hit man 2012-03-30T12:48:00Z

When Mr. Nadien was a toddler, his father gave him a violin and taught him the basics. David Nadien, Philharmonic Concertmaster, Is Dead at 88 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Intonation continued to slip but barely, and by the end the violin soared above Ax's big, glorious piano sound. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Even so, the promise of those violins turns out to come with lots of provisos. Review: In the Musical ‘Soft Power,’ China Whistles the Tune 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

At this annual celebration she invites a host of musical guests to provide an interactive introduction to the orchestra, including those who play French horn, flute, sousaphone, violin, trumpet and more. Spare Times: For Children, for Jan. 27-Feb. 2 2012-01-26T22:42:16Z

In keeping with the company’s distinguished track record with modern music, the season has included admirable performances of difficult but fascinating scores like the violin concertos of Thomas Adès and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z

The Hagemann Foundation, which has since restored the violin, began to investigate its prior ownership after her death. Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

You’ll see Kala play it in a sitting position on the floor, holding the scroll of the violin on her knee. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

The mandolin, like the violin, was modernized in the Baroque era, and composers took advantage of its more penetrating sound. Music Review: No Musicians Harmed in Playing This Concert 2010-12-14T06:08:55Z

Just as the lower strings, following Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s cue, were about to play the murky stirrings that open the piece, a cellphone emitted an unusual ring tone: it was the sound of a violin playing. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra, With Nézet-Séguin, at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-18T21:50:44Z

And when the technique of playing a particular instrument is extended, it’s often in the direction of seemingly naïve gestures — like bowing the wooden shoulder of the violin — that result in the faintest of sounds. Review: Jennifer Koh Asks 32 Musicians to Respond to Paganini 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

He entered the Institute of Musical Art, a forerunner of the Juilliard School, as a violin student at 12, and studied there until he was about 20. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z

On a nearby sofa lay the Hofner “violin” bass that had become Paul’s particular trademark. The time I strummed Paul McCartney’s bass guitar 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Walking through the corridors with his violin, Siala’s music helps not just the patients but also health workers. Tunisian doctor plays violin to boost virus patients’ morale 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre” is a merry dance of death with solo violin doing the frolicsome honor of rattling bones. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

The lights dim, there’s a rumble of timpani, followed by an eerie flute siren song and descending trills from the violins. ‘The Winter’s Tale’: The blockbuster ballet that almost wasn’t 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

On Saturday, there are two piano sonatas by Walker along with a violin sonata, selected songs and a piano sonata, all Beethoven’s. Classical & Opera Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Anyone picturing a herculean Beethoven, shaking his fists at the heavens, may be taken aback, McCabe says, by some of the delicacies in the violin sonatas. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z

A few minutes passed before the musicians — on viola, violin, trumpet, clarinet, cello, flute and vocals — joined in with a warbling chant, laying the foundation for many more undulatory layers of sound. Review: Creating Contrasts With yMusic, Marcos Balter and Dance 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

To present Beethoven as a model for adventurous composers today, they are performing Beethoven violin sonatas along with newly commissioned scores. Classical Music & Opera Listings for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

His son, who is partially deaf, plays violin too. Joshua Bell’s Metro encore draws a crowd

During five stretches of the work, the violin engages in sort of sub-talks with a series of solo instruments: flute, piccolo, oboe, cello and bassoon. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z

Even in the first movement of “Concerto Barocco,” you’re not really “seeing” Bach’s double violin concerto: The difference between the solo violins and the ballerinas following them is rhythmically large. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

De Marchi made a speech, and commemorated the relatives of people who had worked on the violin who had died before seeing it finished. A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Bach and the Mozart are true duets, in which the piano and violin have equal roles, and Levin made an arresting partner. A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

The violin plays an elegiac, wayward melody that seems just eloquently melancholy. Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

So is playing the violin in the Philharmonic. Seeing Africa by Road 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Haywood played with great clarity, a firm support to the singing violin. Washington’s week with Joshua Bell revealed little that we didn’t already know 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

The reason: Many of the violins were German-made and the musicians wanted nothing else to do with them after the atrocities of war. Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust 2012-04-13T20:05:11Z

Garbus looped her voice using pedals and machines, looped her drums, looped her percussive violin strumming. SXSW 2011 post #5: Shabazz Palaces, Tune-Yards, James Blake 2011-03-18T18:32:06Z

He wanted a range of instruments that would share the specific tonal qualities of a violin instead of the varying sounds produced by the modern viola, cello and double bass. Music Review: At the Tank, New Sounds From New Strings 2010-05-31T22:56:00Z

Mr. Zee is still a devotee of self-taught skills, having taught himself to cook and dance, among other things, and the violin started it all. Possessed: A Fashion Career Starts With a Violin 2011-08-26T22:51:54Z

His favoritism is clouded by the parochialism of the day, as when he scolds her for playing the violin, which he deems an unsuitable instrument for a girl. | 'Mozart?s Sister': The Other Child in Papa Mozart?s Musical Troupe 2011-08-18T23:26:03Z

While earlier material featured some digital accouterments, synths are now the focal point, with strings pared down to Zeller’s lone violin. Ra Ra Riot’s new album is a pleasing radio-ready departure 2013-02-07T23:24:56Z

“I adore the piano, but it’s like I’m covering my mouth when I play it. The same goes for the violin, which I’ve also played. For me, the harpsichord is super direct.” A controversial harpsichordist? The adventurous Mahan Esfahani makes his Seattle Symphony debut 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

When the Hildesheimer heirs, two grandsons, sought to reclaim the violin, the parties agreed to mediation before the commission, whose decisions are advisory and not binding. German Panel Rules That a Rare Violin Was Looted by Nazis 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

I have developed something of a kinesthetic awareness of my violin. Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z

Nobody could imagine these shifts and sounds on the violin, and they didn’t know its limitations. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

In the last piece, the violin seemed to be playing some scratchy-toned, ancient folk song atop cosmic piano chords. Music Review: Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen at Frick Collection 2013-12-09T21:56:59Z

The sounds of his violin and the other string instruments bounded off the high ceilings of a room through which an estimated 20,000 people pass each day. Joshua Bell’s Metro encore draws a crowd

Gone are season one’s gloomy credits, which depicted figures, in the style of a Renaissance painting, being ripped from one another’s arms to the strains of a mournful violin backdrop. Reboots done right: How “The Affair” and “The Leftovers” played to their strengths and wiped out their biggest flaws 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Written in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the piece blends snippets of old music, including hymns and fragments of Bach’s Chaconne for solo violin, with a flickering haze of layered sound. Review: Todd Reynolds, Live and Recorded, at the Jewish Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

She noodles around on the violin, but becoming an accomplished musician is not her dream. Women on the verge: Is "Mammals" really about marriage and monogamy after all? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

The orchestra’s strings are still fabulous after all these decades, and the concertmaster, David Kim, gave lovely turns to solo violin passages. Review: In Mahler, Philadelphia Orchestra Finds Beauty Amid the Grit 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

He had learned violin by age 3 and was trained at The Juilliard School in New York. Phil Ramone, Grammy-winning producer, dead at 72 2013-03-30T18:27:08Z

Bass-baritone Jonathan Best was a last-minute stand-in and struggled to bring his arias to life: the Frost Scene, where dry-clattering violins and shivering voices evoke a frozen landscape, was disappointingly dull. King Arthur – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-29T09:08:59Z

When the violins elaborate on this melody in eighth notes, the upper winds add agitated ornamentations, some in triplets, some in eighth notes. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of virtuosic violin schmaltz, and opportunity for just gutsy, beautiful sounds.” In ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ a Title Role Shared Onstage and Off 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

The devil, violin in hand, climbs to the stage from the orchestra pit on a blood-colored ladder. Review: ‘Mefistofele’ at the Met Opera Is a Devil That Dances 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

I was discouraged by my violin teacher, a woman, actually. Cracking a Glass Ceiling With the Maestro’s Baton 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Tender, ornate violin solos alternate with brash orchestral outbursts full of clanging percussion and conciliatory passages. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

In the Philharmonic’s colorful performance, the sound of the violins, playing the high, wafting opening lines of the “Dawn” interlude, was bright, piercing and eerily beautiful. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

As an account of a coupling, it is sobering, opening with deliberate, somber violins over which a dissonant fog settles. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Joshua Bell is the violin soloist in Bernstein’s “Serenade,” and the mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor intones words from the Hebrew Book of Lamentations in the Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah.” Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Most violins have to be played, and played often, to mean so much. Possessed: A Fashion Career Starts With a Violin 2011-08-26T22:51:54Z

Years later it found its way into the hands of Israeli violin-maker and restorer Amnon Weinstein, whose extraordinary collection comprises violins embodying their former owners' tragic histories and stories of survival. Holocaust victims' 'Violins of Hope' to resound in Berlin Philharmonic 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

She grew up with the festival, of course, and memorably, aged five, was ushered on to the Pyramid stage to play the violin. Glastonbury: field of dreams 2010-06-04T07:00:00Z

“Saxophone Song” rode a frenzied uptempo swing, with a breakdown for distorted violin and wordless vocals; “Suspended in Gaffa,” originally a waltz girded in oompah, became a rush of metric shifts and chromatic frictions. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z

There had been plans for an expansive choral piece and a violin concerto. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Haydn was not the first composer to write pieces for two violins, viola and cello. The String Quartet, Reinvented 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z

Ms. Carter was both guest and performer; she played her violin near an altar decorated with pink flowers. She Sang. So Did His Heart. 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Sometimes they play with the intense seriousness of orchestral soloists; at others they fiddle as if at a hoedown; at still others they strum the violin and viola like guitars. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 16-22 2012-11-15T23:10:06Z

Read more "Eclectic and beautiful, featuring voice, percussion, violin, piano, accordion, vibraphone, gu zheng and, above all, Hubbert's extraordinary guitar playing." Scottish Album of the Year Award – who should win? 2013-06-19T16:51:46Z

Sørensen, as the first violin, was a stand-in for the Maiden, his articulation at the start delicate, even reticent. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Charles learned all kinds of instruments, like a little Bach might, but settled on the violin and was playing under his father’s baton by his early teens. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Eclipse played both pieces in updated versions: the Vivaldi on modern instruments and with no harpsichord or continuo instrument and the Piazzolla in Leonid Desyatnikov’s arrangement for solo violin and string orchestra. Review | Everyone’s a soloist in Eclipse Chamber concert 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

He did choose to publish the concerto, originally for flute and piano but easily transcribed for violin. A centennial tribute to 'The Divine Mr. Harrison' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

The exhibits date from what is considered his golden period of 1700-1725, when his instruments became the classic models on which later violins and cellos were based. Biggest UK Stradivarius show planned 2013-05-14T17:13:02Z

In the late 1980s, Mellencamp scored major hits with songs featuring violin, banjo, accordion and dobro — long before Americana became as popular a genre as it is now. “I’m a blue guy in a red state”: John Mellencamp and the search for an American soul 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Thirty million kids are studying piano and 25 million are studying violin. 'Crouching Tiger' composer Tan Dun will give L.A. Phil a martial-arts workout 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The instruments set the mood: The piano plays thick, grating chords that split into glancing strands of delicate notes, as the violin and cello sustain tonally murky sonorities and break into soft, oscillating squiggles. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The vessel is a faithful, large-scale replica of a real violin, made from about a dozen different kinds of wood, with nuts and bolts inside, as well as space for a motor. A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

We retreat swiftly to talk of holidays and events and plans: Thanksgiving, our daughter’s violin concert, the meeting at the town hall. No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

For these occasions, the orchestra is now reseated in Schwarz's preferred configuration, with first and second violin sections on opposite sides of the stage, and the cellos to the conductor's left. A mighty Ninth and soaring voices 2011-12-29T17:30:06Z

A persistent bass line skulked through the odd meters of “Compay” by Ms. Kihlstedt; with violin and saxophone in a pas de deux and transparently voiced piano parts, it conjured late-night Latin elegance. New Jazz Standards Quintet Makes Its Debut 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

In the Melodia from Bartók's Sonata for solo violin, which Menuhin premiered, her sound is captivating. Tasmin Little ? review 2010-12-01T22:40:00Z

The son of violin virtuoso Efrem Zimbalist and acclaimed opera singer Alma Gluck, young Efrem initially appeared headed for a musical career himself. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., star of 'The FBI,' dead at 95 2014-05-03T15:39:30Z

Dworkin begged to play an instrument, though, so at 7 she entered the Soviet Union’s tightly organized music education program, and chose the violin. They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

She’ll park at a rest stop and play holiday songs on her violin with the windows down, so other truckers can listen She’ll also offer to share her food with anyone who is around. A Holiday Feast, Cooked in the Cab of a Truck 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

His works for solo violin are the summit for any student, though for many they remain a lifelong project. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

The instruments ranged from cello and piano to a sextet that also included violin, viola, flute, clarinet and percussion. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

On a recent afternoon at David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic’s violins began to play an ensemble pizzicato pattern underneath a turntable-scratch solo by the artist DJ Logic. An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Rahman's great innovation for Indian movies was to introduce orchestral melodies to the traditional Bollywood soundtrack's fondness for violent, slashing violins and dramatic tablas. Around the world with AR Rahman 2010-04-01T21:05:00Z

Musical director and keyboardist Jake Null anchors a small, flexible orchestra comprising guitar, bass and drums driving the rowdy first half of the show, plus violin and cello prying open your heart in act two. Musical ‘Dogfight’ has bite, while ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ lacks affection 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

On the sly, he began to teach himself to play the violin. Possessed: A Fashion Career Starts With a Violin 2011-08-26T22:51:54Z

Far from my dictionary’s fling, “unrestrained pleasures or dissipation,” this was a genteel affair, as you would ordinarily expect of an evening of violin, two viols and harpsichord. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z

“An egotistical trophy,” is what Totenberg called Johnson’s decision to hold on to the violin. After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

His violin magic transcended the world of classical music, earning him fame on radio and in Hollywood. Jascha Heifetz's vast recorded legacy lives on 2011-06-08T13:53:00Z

Like a bracing violin duet, "Freud's Last Session" needs to be well-modulated and balanced in its execution. It's atheist vs. believer in Taproot's 'Freud's Last Case' 2012-03-29T20:02:04Z

Shuddering in the low strings and scurrying violin lines accompanied a verse that went, “In / New York / Tens of thousands of hundreds / Hurry, to / Embark upon the market’s seas.” ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering September 11 With Music 2011-09-11T21:09:27Z

He also allegedly told investigators that he traveled to the Chicago area to meet with the two Calabrese associates to discuss how they might get their hands on the violin. Prison note details how priest allegedly conspired with mob hit man 2012-03-30T12:48:00Z

This appearance was part of the orchestra’s “Concentric Paths” tour, the title being that of Mr. Adès’s exhilarating 2005 violin concerto, featured in the tour. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z

When the violin finally approached the church of La Salute, De Marchi confessed, “I was a little nervous that something could happen.” A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

The homemade video had a bodybuilder posing with a violin. Andreas Scholl, countertenor – portrait of the artist 2013-03-19T19:30:00Z

She balanced well against the violin, though things got a little too heavy in the Bartok. Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos team up triumphantly at Strathmore 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Conducting from the violin or piano is more common with chamber and period orchestras and with Baroque music; with a full-size modern ensemble, the musicians essentially become rudderless for large swathes of a piece. Music Review: Pinchas Zukerman Leads the Royal Philharmonic 2014-01-13T22:59:38Z

The shop is open to the public — but if you want to see the collection of nearly priceless violins, book ahead. Joshua Bell’s London 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Moreover, in Tippett's Lament from the Divertimento on Sellinger's Round, a work commissioned by Britten, it sounded as though the spirit of Purcell were being haunted by a strange and beautiful-sounding violin. Britten Sinfonia/Alice Coote – review 2012-11-23T18:58:29Z

“My mom kept asking people if they would break into his apartment and look for the violin,” Nina Totenberg said. After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The violin break in the bridge is a nice counter to the raunchier progressions. The Cranberries' Roses Picks Up Where the Band Left Off 2012-02-21T19:37:06Z

“I knew right away that holding a violin, playing a violin, was not simply for me, but it was me.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Prodigy Loses Her ‘Soul Mate’ — a Rare Violin 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

“I always liked the violin and I liked fiddle tunes,” Marsalis says. The challenge Nicola Benedetti threw down to get Wynton Marsalis to write a 'wild' violin concerto 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

“Elizabeth is like a second mother to me,” she said, packing up her violin after the concert. A Classical Music Lover Changes Kenyan Children’s Lives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

‘Nothing? You have a piano to touch, a violin to play and you say you have nothing to do? Will you please go and study?’ Bibi Ferreira, Brazil’s Grande Dame of the Stage, Can’t Stop Singing Even at 94 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The world’s smallest violin playing for these privileged children, who probably deprived qualified applicants a spot at these universities. Their parents dragged them into the college bribery scandal. Can a PR expert pull these kids out? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

For the finale, the dancers high-stepped their way off the stage to the sounds of the Florida duo Black Violin, who, fittingly, mix hip-hop with classical violin and viola. The Top 10 Moments of Paris Fashion Week 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The piano part, mostly shifting chords with active inner voices, cushions the searching violin but loses patience and starts prodding the music with leaping octaves and gnarly bursts. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Her albums — particularly “Energy Field” from 2010, which occasionally calls to mind drum-less heavy metal or an untuned violin — unfurl as tone poems, giving her changing surroundings a spiritual gravitas. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Many of Kasem's former radio colleagues also attended, while pop music arranger David Campbell played a violin version of Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns, one of Kasem's favourite songs. Kasem memorial held in Los Angeles 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

He uses a high and a low instrument from different families: violin and bass for the strings, clarinet and bassoon for woodwinds, and trumpet and trombone for brasses. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z

He recalled telling his mother, “At least I don’t have to play violin anymore.” Bruce Langhorne, guitarist who inspired Bob Dylan to write ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ dies at 78 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The violin has a shorter fingerboard than modern violins, so many of the highest notes required Mr. Fulmer to venture into the no man’s land between the bridge and the end of the fingerboard. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

Squeaky high repeated notes in the violins at first made the bridge sound as though it were a mouse rollercoaster. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Nothing here is neat, but much is very beautiful, expressed in the band’s own language, this time with the occasional organ, piano, fuzz-toned violin and free-jazz drumming. Music: New Music From David Berkman, Dirty Three, Christian Mistress 2012-02-19T14:14:22Z

Respighi, best known for his symphonic poems inspired by scenes and festivals of Rome, also composed a few works for piano and violin in his youth. Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang Play Brahms and Respighi 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

“Dancers have arms to help find their balance, but one of my arms, you see, is doing the most ridiculous things with the violin.” Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion 2011-02-23T21:15:40Z

Highlights from its contents include a Sony Walkman, one of Yehudi Menuhin's violins, and a Mini Cooper treated to prevent decay. 11 time capsules waiting to be opened 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

Becoming suspicious, he asked the man to wait and phoned the police, who took the man and the violin away. Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z

But he is back in town celebrating his 47th birthday with the ambitious series “four in the time of seven,” four solo violin and viola recitals of new and old music in seven days. With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Last year the eloquent Dane Johansen replaced its original cellist, Andrew Janss, and at Sunday’s concert Joel Link played the second violin part, replacing Wu Jie, who is on a leave. Music Review: Escher String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-11-10T22:37:13Z

Then I played flute, studied violin a little, and then I studied singing. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Some of the violins which will also be played on Tuesday followed their former owners half away around the world through decades of homelessness and exile. Holocaust victims' 'Violins of Hope' to resound in Berlin Philharmonic 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Violinist Alexandra Osborne, from the second violin section but seated as concertmaster for this performance, did an admirable job keeping the small group together at a few crucial spots. Guest conductor invigorates ‘Messiah’ in spirited NSO program 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The bird calls and long, high violin note to start, the offstage trumpets and finally the theme in the cellos had an almost dewy freshness, and the performance rose from there. Momentous Mahler, sprightly Mozart at Seattle Symphony 2012-04-06T16:51:04Z

Ms. Wang, a mighty substitute for the work’s string instruments, demonstrated how the piece has always used violins as thinly veiled percussion. Review: Yuja Wang Makes a Case for the Piano as Percussion 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

To make the violin look untouched, the new varnish must exactly match what already is on the violin. What do college partyers, violin makers and cake decorators have in common?

Wear the hat, play the violin, solve something impossible. Sherlock: how the TV phenomenon became an annoying self-parody 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

The work begins with very somber piano, joined by a foreboding violin line, which hangs up trill ornaments like omens of uncertainty. Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival presents concert of darkness, light 2011-07-28T19:25:04Z

Ms. Josefowicz, playing this formidable violin part from memory, gave a stunning performance, by turns commanding and vulnerable, slashing and sensual. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

I don’t think it’s actually a very good violin. Amandla Stenberg Sees Beauty Underwater, and Strength in Maya Angelou 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

The violins strummed like guitars during a reading about cowboys in Kansas. Music Review: ‘Gabriel’s Guide to the 48 States,’ at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-28T21:06:11Z

All three movements of the Fourth “Brandenburg” feature a solo violin part that is continually overshadowed by a duo of lowly recorders. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Her performance of a violin sonata written by the Hungarian composer Bartok as he was battling leukaemia was accompanied by a haunting Quay Brothers film representing his restless reverie. Dizzying heights 2011-07-25T07:48:08Z

The violin of Moldovan virtuoso Patricia Kopatchinskaja "comes close to disintegrating under the force of her spectacular display" the magazine said in awarding its top honor to the recording of Eotvos's "Seven". Columbia shuttle disaster concerto gets top music prize 2013-09-17T21:13:28Z

Born to German parents and raised in Italy's rural Tuscany, Hadelich began playing violin at age 5, taught by his father, an amateur cellist, and occasionally by Uto Ughi, an Italian master. Violinist Augustin Hadelich will be Seattle Symphony's guest 2012-04-05T19:29:03Z

During his working career, he played violin in the Ministry of Agriculture orchestra. ‘God Was on Vacation’: A Visit With a Long-Lost Cousin in Romania Is a Holocaust Lesson 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

He spoke about opening his case and expecting to find his violin. After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Barizo won early recognition in piano and violin and received a full scholarship to a Christian college at age 16. The Changing Face of J. Mae Barizo’s Kitchen 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

There was a lack of depth in the mesmerizing unwinding lines for the violins in the Adagio, and some iffy intonation in the brasses. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

He began taking piano lessons at 5, but his music teacher suggested his hands more suited the violin. Svend Asmussen, irreverent jazz violin virtuoso, dies at 100 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

A 30-member music ensemble from Chicago, it includes the usual brass and percussion, with what it calls its “freak” section — guitars, mandolins, violins and accordions amplified with speakers in the musicians’ helmets. Weekend Miser 2011-04-21T22:00:18Z

“I think the story ends up with the store owner and Einstein playing the violin together,” Lipscombe says. Memorials to Gandhi, Einstein share a surprising common bond 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Although one doesn’t always consider the instrument itself to be a work of art, those who have ever gotten their hands on a Stradivarius violin would certainly beg to differ. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Penworth plays Bach on the violin to calm his nerves, but also sometimes reads an elegant edition of Plato’s dangerously exciting “Phaedrus.” ‘The Young Desire It,’ by Kenneth Mackenzie

After fluttering figurations from the woodwinds, a final flourish from Nathan Cole's violin ended the piece on a giddy note. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

"Be wild, like the pop music," the 30-year-old music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic exhorts as he pantomimes a spirited sweep of a violin bow as the kids chuckle. LA takes baton as flagship for youth orchestras 2011-11-13T16:03:17Z

But strings will still be in the spotlight, and in good hands: stepping in is the orchestra's principal second violin, Elisa Barston, who will perform Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1. Substitution at the symphony 2012-06-06T19:01:04Z

Mr. Eotvos began musical lessons — violin, piano, flute and percussion — at the age of 5. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

They continue their partnership with a series of four concerts featuring the complete Beethoven violin sonatas alongside new works inspired by a sonata on the program. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

A violin concerto that he was supposed to write for Leonidas Kavakos in 2011 was not finished in time for planned performances in Los Angeles, Berlin, Philadelphia and London, and remains uncompleted. Osvaldo Golijov’s New Opera for the Met is Called Off 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

No other place in the world made violins like Cremona, Fulvio said. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

It is rarely performed with a singer —  the vocal line alternately follows the viola and the violin parts, sometimes going off on its own. Renée Fleming and Emerson String Quartet bring some obscure music to light at Disney Hall 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jones’s father was a musician, and her mother an artist, and as a young girl she played the violin seriously: “seriously,” as she put it, “to the degree of not fun.” Netia Jones, Making Maurice Sendak’s Creatures Sing 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

At this point the music, by Hans Zimmer, is a virtual cricket field of violins, the most anxious of all instruments. Christopher Nolan’s 'Dunkirk' Is a Masterpiece 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

That said, the keening guitars and mournful violins are ubiquitous elements – leitmotifs, if you will – in their music. New band of the day ? No 891: Tristram 2010-10-20T16:14:00Z

Bagatelles are almost uniformly for piano, but Dvorak’s endearing set is scored creatively: for two violins, cello and harmonium. Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

As he later told the Colorado Springs Independent, the leaders of the city-sponsored band “made it clear that the violin was not an instrument for black kids.” Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

In their intensity the violins sounded somewhat screechy at times, but the long oboe solo, beautifully phrased by principal Ben Hausmann, set the stage. Rare Schubert gems sparkle in hands of Seattle Symphony 2012-03-23T16:53:04Z

Shaham's new recording of Bach's solo violin Sonatas and Partitas takes a more substantial attitude toward musical proof, with a great emphasis on articulation, architecture and development. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

As the performers deliver this labyrinthine plot — playing guitar, accordion, banjo, saw and violin all the while — they move purposefully among the audience, gently displacing those who happen to be in their way. Review: Sailing on Silly Seas With ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

“Primavera Amarilla,” a lively setting of a text by the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez for soprano, piano, cello, clarinet and violin, was brightly sung by Mary Mackenzie. Music Review: Following a Contemporary Palette as It Ranges From Peru to China 2011-01-25T23:14:56Z

Mr. Biondi conducted from the violin, using a lot of body English. Music Review: Norwegian Ensemble Flaunts Its Bows and Body English 2011-03-24T22:04:24Z

The way it combines with the beautiful piano writing, and then merges with the first violin, is a magical compositional technique. For a Trailblazing Female Composer, a Prestigious Recording 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z

Once, she wrote what she thought was a Mozartean duo for violin and piano, until she heard two classmates play it. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Seattle Symphony’s principal second violin, Elisa Barston, will be handling solo duty. Two to tango: Beethoven and Astor Piazzolla share SSO bill 2012-12-27T21:21:56Z

Pianist David White will introduce his own Piano Trio, a new composition, with Onyx partners Meg Brennand on cello and James Garlick on violin. Onyx Chamber Players to cap season with Britten, Ives, world premiere 2012-06-21T20:25:07Z

Both played the violin, and this being an Ozon film, where the possibility of romantic attraction is always in the air, the movie leads you to wonder if they were lovers. Review: ‘Frantz,’ a Mysterious Frenchman and the Wounds of War 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

From age 10 to 22, he played the violin, and he started playing the piano when he was 15. Can Philippe Jaroussky Help Fix Classical Music’s Diversity Problem? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Some violins were played at concentration camps; others were used to play klezmer music, a lively, soulful Jewish folk music popular in prewar Eastern Europe. Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust 2012-04-13T20:05:11Z

That a version for violins is easier to take on tour, as Ms. Lamon pointed out, was evident. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z

Ms. Kavafian played the first violin part with limpid sweetness, but again it was the violists who most often seized the spotlight with superb playing. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, With Works for Strings 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

From her superb Stradivarius violin, Faust drew a honeyed tone with depth as she played this beautiful concerto with guts where needed and an expressive, singing tone. Danish conductor wows Benaroya crowd 2011-11-04T17:40:05Z

As first violin, the concertmaster is also responsible for leading the violin section and preparing the section’s scores — by arranging technical details — and usually plays all the violin solos within a piece of music. Seattle Symphony names a concertmaster, after three years without one 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

First violins sit on the right, and second violins sit on the left, with the double basses on either side of the strings. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Harper and his mother sat in a small practice room, its shelves crowded with violin cases, some covered in dust. Ben Harper and his mom roam the store that was a childhood home 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Now we want to convince those curious friends to love string quartets — the intimacy, intensity and joy of two violins, a viola and cello. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love String Quartets 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

The tradition of violin making dates back to the 16th century, with the work of the Amati family, followed later by that of the Stradivari and Guarneri families. The high note in this family’s Italian vacation? Cremona. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

After receiving a prolonged ovation, Mr. Shaham played an encore: a stylish account of the gavotte in rondo form from Bach’s Third Partita for solo violin. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

There was a piano, saxophones, trumpets, clarinets, a broken violin, a four-track recorder and a beat machine that he said no one knew how to use. Kassa Overall Knows Artists Feel Pressure. His New Album Explores It. 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a slightly austere one, in which live music — usually piano and violin — and dance are scrupulously presented in notably nontheatrical surroundings. Dance Review: Bare Bones, Fleshed Out With Music 2011-02-06T22:22:41Z

In the first movement, when episodes of busy passagework for the violin break out, the music often sounds like an insistent toccata. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z

A pleasant but cautiously played first half paired two sonatas — Debussy’s only one for violin, and Mendelssohn’s in F — that struggled to make an impact in the cavernous Fisher Hall. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z

Chalifour played the violin solo with wonderful clarity and expressive detail, showing no signs of fatigue.  Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mutter, looking typically glamorous in one of her trademark strapless gowns, was soloist and leader in three violin concertos Mozart wrote as a teenager. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z

Think of these, says Kaku, as the strings of a violin or cello. Tom Service on the sound the universe makes 2012-06-24T19:00:07Z

After first picking up the violin at 4, Benedetti swapped the picturesque Ayrshire village of West Kilbride in Scotland for the “extreme environment” of the Yehudi Menuhin music school in Surrey, England, five years later. A Violinist Prepares Her Next Star Turn: Festival Leader 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

What made you choose the piano and not, say, the violin? After deaths of his daughters, ages 1 and 5, pianist Vadym Kholodenko returns to the stage 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

It’s been a while since I saw an NSO audience quite so excited; and she smilingly acknowledged the applause with a Bach encore, the Gigue from the 3rd violin partita. Review | How a young conductor and stunning violinist brought an NSO program to life 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

He started studying violin at 5 and piano at 8, and as a teenager began playing piano professionally as Buzzy Bley. Paul Bley, Adventurous Jazz Pianist, Dies at 83 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Although it may seem less keening and dramatic than the violin, the cello makes up for hysterics with a deep, sonorous elegance. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z

Born in 1972 near Cologne, the middle of three children of a Greek father and German mother, Ms. Harteros grew up playing the violin. What’s Keeping One of Opera’s Greatest Sopranos From Singing? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

The work opens with a tramping march, portrayed by dry trumpet tones, short clarinet notes and dusty violin skitters. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z

There’s nothing easy about 90 minutes of solo violin music. Review: In a violinist’s high-wire act, virtuoso Kristóf Baráti transfixes 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Afterward, Harris, also the production’s music director, quietly entered the large center space and played a violin solo, “Homage,” in honor of George Floyd, whose death, last May, generated protests worldwide. Review: Bill T. Jones’s Fragments for a Fragmented Time 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Though he began studying both violin and piano at a tender age, the Pittsburgh native proved so adept at tennis he achieved ranking in the Midwest and was offered tennis scholarships. Awadagin Pratt to join NW Sinfonietta for ‘Embargo’ premiere 2013-04-18T21:52:57Z

Don't stretch, it's like a violin — don't stretch the string too tight or it will break — and don't let it too loose or you won't have any music. Shirley MacLaine on life, showbiz and finding contentment 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z

"This Magic Moment," for example, begins with violins doing giddy, hurricane-force arpeggios. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z

The first one started with sputtered, curt piano chords to which the violin replied with toccatalike bursts of spiraling notes. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Though he packed his solo line with difficult twists and played it himself on Sunday morning, he was equally generous with the unremittingly spiky ensemble writing, which seemed to swallow the violin line whole. Critic?s Notebook: The New and the Newer; Hold the Preconceptions 2011-08-09T22:58:14Z

Eventually the violin is set upon by gnashing bursts of jagged chords and a gaggle of crisscrossing orchestral voices, evoking the indignant true believers. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

In the new lineup Mr. Ponty’s violin states melodies as often as Mr. Gambale’s electric guitar, bringing a rustic touch rather than rock aggression. Music Review: Jazz Fusion Heroes of the 1970s Resurrect Their Intricate Dynamics 2011-08-14T21:20:13Z

The violin is known in musical circles as the "Lipinski" Stradivarius. Mystery surrounds theft of Stradivarius violin 2014-02-05T23:10:57Z

So did her first album: At 17, she recorded three of Bach’s solo violin works, including the Second Partita and its infamous Chaconne, an audacious choice for a young artist. 5 Classical Music Faces to Watch This Season 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

"We all make decisions about things we want to do when we're kids. Some people play violin, and that doesn't mean you go on to become a violinist," she said. Danielle Fishel's world is in 'Normally, This Would Be Cause for Concern' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

His grandsons say it’s possible that Hildesheimer was hoping he could sell the violin in Australia, where he and his wife, Helene, planned to build a new life with their younger daughter. Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

That ivory is then made into valuable trinkets in Asia or even parts of violin bows in Europe and North America. Poaching could drive elephants to extinction in decades 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The music — Jewish prayers, African hymns, Greek folk songs, a Bach violin sonata — is dreamy and grave. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kym, who began playing the violin at age six, made her international debut with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra when she was 13 and has performed with other leading orchestras. ArtsBeat: Stradivarius Violin Is Stolen From London Snack Shop 2010-12-24T18:00:26Z

After intermission, the evening, and the series, ended with the premiere of Mr. Lang’s “mystery sonatas,” a work of nearly 40 minutes for solo violin performed stunningly by the brilliant young violinist Augustin Hadelich. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z

The tradition of the violin lies in creation. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

"It seems like every culture on the planet has an instrument that reminds me of the violin, so the first idea was all kinds of sounds and instrumentation on one record." Regina Carter takes her jazz violin on a jaunt around the world 2010-05-20T20:12:00Z

The sound palette created by these multiple layers was astonishingly rich, and at times the virtuosic violin line above the repetitive radio signal patterns took on the tried-and-tested beauty of a Vivaldi concerto. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z

His recordings included Stravinsky’s ballet music with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Dvorak symphonies with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; and Mozart violin concertos with Ms. Fischer and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Yakov Kreizberg, Orchestral Conductor, Dies at 51 2011-04-11T22:49:58Z

Once in a while, Avital departed from merely tracing the solo violin part, playing arpeggios in the slow movement of “Autumn.” How much difference can one mandolin make? Bowl audience hears a fresh spin on 'Four Seasons' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Born in Lyons, France, Mr. Morlot studied violin at the University of Montreal and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Ludovic Morlot Is Seattle?s New Conductor 2010-06-29T22:04:00Z

Here, all four movements seem to conform too comfortably to the template of what a successful contemporary violin concerto needs to be. Salonen: Violin Concerto; Nyx – review 2012-10-04T20:49:00Z

A program of Bach violin concertos, 8 p.m. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z

Stolen Stradivarius violins are hard to sell because they are so recognizable. Roman Totenberg’s Stolen Stradivarius Is Found After 35 Years 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Suddenly, thematic bits protrude ominously from various instruments, and the violins try to lead the journey into dark terrain with a slinky, elusive melody. Review: At the Philharmonic, New Music for a Changing World 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

While he attended the College of William and Mary, he was said to have studied for 15 hours daily on top of violin practice. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Frost began his musical studies at age 5, not as a student of the clarinet but of the violin. The Swedish Clarinetist Martin Frost Wants to Move Beyond Traditional Concert Formats 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Brahms wrote these works as he was still experimenting with composing for orchestra; revised in the mid-1870s, the score of the 30-minute Serenade No. 2 lacks violins, for a melancholy tinge to the general geniality. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

The Scherzo comes as a complete contrast: biting and frenetic music, in breathless perpetual motion, with an intensely difficult violin part that tussles with a rattling, boisterous orchestra, especially some ornery woodwinds. Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Chen’s full-bodied lyricism nevertheless made for beautifully contoured phrases in the violin’s highest, riskiest registers. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

The 21 variations on the Passacaglia are punctuated with cadenzas for cello, viola and violin in turn and these anguished outbursts were delivered with passionate conviction by the Vertavo players. Vertavo String Quartet – review 2013-06-11T18:09:14Z

The U.S. premiere of the Italian’s violin concerto, “Duende: The Dark Notes,” was the major work on the first half of the Friday program. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

But “Clockwork” is built from small gestures — gently rocking figures on the keyboard, shivers of violin tremolo and whispered bow-strokes that barely graze the strings. Review | Violinist delivers an expressive Romantic performance at the Kennedy Center 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

A jagged violin solo as Marnie waits for her icy mother to come into the room is an economical evocation of a broken relationship and broken mind. Review: Nico Muhly’s ‘Marnie’ Brings Hitchcock Into the 21st Century 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

The second movement begins with wistful, gentle music, but the mood does not stay that way for long, as yet again the violin sparks agitated contrapuntal clashes with the orchestra. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z

Yet it was at this time that Mr. Ricci began mastering the music that would later help him reinvigorate his career: the 24 Caprices, Paganini’s fiery and daunting works for solo violin. Ruggiero Ricci, Virtuoso Violinist, Dies at 94 2012-08-10T02:50:07Z

As the violins and strings grow more intense, Mrs. Herrera used darker wools. Runway Crescendo: Strut Over, Beethoven 2013-02-06T21:11:14Z

I will say, Elyssa plays the violin on all of “Central Park.” Meet the Women Who Give ‘Central Park’ Its Sunny Sound 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

It will include classes in trumpet, violin and guitar, along with music theory and the history of mariachi music. Mexico opening first mariachi school 2012-09-06T01:31:05Z

"US Air is not letting us put our violins on an airplane," says Kendall. Violinists' protest against US Airways becomes an online hit 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

These artists were then joined by the Philharmonic’s principal horn player, Philip Myers, for Brahms’s great Trio in E flat for horn, violin and piano. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-23T22:29:50Z

All that remains are violins and the highest bells. What It’s Like to Hear the Desert in Music 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Instead of, say, 30 violins, he uses 18. Schumann, via Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati and Nézet-Séguin 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

He studied violin in school and took up drums and flute independently. Billy Bang, Jazz Violinist Inspired by Vietnam Experience, Dies at 63 2011-04-14T02:43:25Z

But the orchestration had been heavily altered — new instruments, and divisi lines added to the violin parts — and the ending was rewritten to be tragic, a tradition that continues with most stagings today. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

And, as I was scraping away at my violin, I started wondering about musical instruments. Why aren't there more musical instruments in children's books? 2012-09-28T17:21:46Z

He was helped by Anton Barachovsky's outstanding account of the solo violin part, a wry but devoted depiction of the composer's wife, which in this performance seemed very much at the heart of the work. Bavarian RSO/Jansons/Uchida ? review 2011-03-29T16:57:06Z

Whenever the violin turns dreamy, in the first movement, the music, led by the piano, bursts into pummeling patterns of punchy, chiseled descending chords. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z

The group readied themselves to play, simultaneously lifting bows to violins, hands to a golden harp and fingers to pluck at guitarróns, their bass guitars. Mariachis Play On, Their Music Unsilenced by the Virus or the Deaths 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

But he did premiere telling music, especially a sensational violin concerto by Earl Kim, a Californian who studied with Schoenberg. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Amid the rippling piano runs and fanciful violin writing, this music pulses with rigorous counterpoint and brittle harmonic writing that recall Stravinsky. Music Review: Steven Beck and Miranda Cuckson at Bargemusic 2010-06-20T21:37:00Z

The eclectic moods and textures are mirrored in the accompanying violin part, brilliantly rendered by Ms. Cuckson. Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

“Why do you think this was written for cello and not violin?” he asked. ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The Beethoven survey at Carnegie continues with the first of three concerts from this chamber-music supergroup, all of which feature a cello sonata, a violin sonata and a piano trio: here, the Cello Sonata Op. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The reverse process made the following piece more satisfying, as the solo part of the Harpsichord Concerto No. 2 in E was given over to the violin. Review: A Perfectly Acceptable Slice of Bach 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

He took violin lessons as a child, attended music school as a teenager and earned money playing in amateur theatricals. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

He did not comment on the condition of the recovered violin. Violin thought to be stolen 300-year-old Stradivarius recovered 2014-02-06T14:43:21Z

In the 1970s he became one of the first jazz musicians to use an electric violin. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

A large walk-in wooden shell lined with video screens enables patrons to experience life as if from inside a violin. The Violin Museum Is a Luthier’s Paradise 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The second movement in particular, a vigorous Allegro, begins with a rhythmically steady pizzicato figure, shared by the violin and cello; the flute and clarinet briefly weave an inviting line around it. Music Review: The neoLIT Ensemble?s Women?s Works at Bargemusic 2010-05-30T22:02:00Z

Six-year-old Sydney Trapp happened to be in the shop and serenaded the Mrs. Obama with “Ode to Joy” on her violin. Playing for Michelle Obama 2012-06-11T21:25:00Z

Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor featured the sweet tone of Bell’s violin as part of a transparent ensemble approach to this delicate music. Review | Can three musical stars shine in constellation? Bell, Isserlis and Denk in concert. 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The works — two Nielsen concertos, one for flute and one for violin, and Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony — spanned less than 50 years. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Carl Nielsen’s Works 2012-10-11T22:30:40Z

After an initial violin outburst, the piece yields to a meandering and melancholy piano solo. There’s a Skeleton in My Closet, Literally 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Some violins that ended up in closets or attics for decades found their way to Violins of Hope. In this concert, musicians will perform on instruments played by Jews before and during the Holocaust 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Cloud Chamber combined a simple, almost rustic violin part with a synthesiser. Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music festival ? review 2011-02-15T19:00:01Z

But her evening of Bach culminated in the sprawling, majestic Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 — the Everest of the violin repertory. Review: Hilary Hahn Plays an Unabashedly Romantic Bach 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

There is no direct narrative or story, just images like a flying violin with wings or the Great Wall of China surrounded by crumbling towers. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Soon, the violin spins out a pensive, restless solo line that keeps taking surprise turns, yet somehow sounds inevitable. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Bach wrote some of his most stirringly expressive music in the form of dances, like the keyboard suites and his Partitas for solo violin, which are full of Sarabandes, Gigues, Passepieds, Gavottes and Bourrées. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z

The mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzmán performed the song at one of the raid siren locations, accompanied by pizzicato bass and a lyrically swooning violin stationed nearby. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

He was outstanding in the demonic scordatura solo – in which the violin is tuned a tone higher – in Mahler's fourth. The world's best orchestra 2011-02-27T00:04:15Z

“May he hear the violin tonight,” she told an audience of 200 people at a private club in Manhattan, and then launched into the Ysaÿe Violin Sonata No. 2. Roman Totenberg’s stolen Stradivarius was once lost forever. Now, it plays again. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

It may be a handsome violin virtuoso, a young K-pop star or the latest beauty to roll off the modeling assembly line. Anna Sui Gets a Degree, and Her Due 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

At first, the musicians produced subtle flickering textures using their own instruments, then gradually integrated the fixtures beside them, including a violin harnessed to a contraption that tickled its strings. For This Experimental Festival, Bring Your Swimsuit and Dancing Shoes 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Nothing associated with the violin seems beyond the author’s interest. An engrossing history of a venerable instrument 2013-01-02T22:41:35Z

Over a drum loop Archer provided, “She just responded with violin, and lyrically and melodically, instantly,” he said. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

They start in near-silence, add layers of static and build slowly, almost imperceptibly until drums are at locomotive speed and guitars and violin create a matrix of interlocking lines. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z

One of the rare violins in the collection maintained by the city of Cremona in northern Italy, home of the Stradivarius. News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z

Indeed, in the early going “Drift Multiply” was some of Mr. Perich’s most sublimely settled music yet, as minor-third dyads bloomed throughout the violins. Review: 50 Violins, 50 Computer Chips, a Secular Prayer 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Following the violin concerto premiered this year is the composer's Oboe Concerto, written for Nicholas Daniel and the Britten Sinfonia and premiered with the composer as conductor. Britten Sinfonia/MacMillan ? review 2010-10-25T21:00:00Z

In “Kaimos” the computer sounds are distant and eerie, and if the slow, warm-toned violin line at first sounded merely incidental, it gradually wrested your attention. Music Review: Violinists, Plugged in, Bow, Pluck and Twang 2011-05-27T22:16:21Z

He shapes the metal oven trays with an electric saw to form the body of a violin and engineers cellos from oil barrels. Paraguayan landfill orchestra makes sweet music from rubbish 2013-04-26T14:02:55Z

But Schumann’s violin concerto is not, in fact, a well-known work. Midori fails to sell little-known Schumann to NSO audience

However, she reveals Jarman worked with her on the demo for the new album, which she says was "really nice" and he can be heard playing the violin on a hidden track. Nash bites back 2010-04-19T09:40:00Z

Among their recordings are Beethoven's violin sonatas and Dvorak's complete piano trios. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

Soon, though, a series of downward-sliding melodies in the violins begins to tug the music away; the pedal point returns, but feels slightly less fixed. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

The world’s largest playable violin was made by German luthiers in 2010. Start this week on a high note by celebrating National Violin Day 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

The visit was initially broached by Lisa Batiashvili, an international violin soloist of Georgian origin who has played with the Philharmonic. Philharmonic Overseas Visit Canceled 2010-09-24T17:30:00Z

“As a director, if I identify a violin that is out of tune, I have to take that from the orchestra,” Iñárritu told the Hollywood Reporter. The Revenant: first reactions to DiCaprio thriller suggest Oscar potential 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

To compensate, Mr. André performed transcriptions of many Baroque pieces for solo violin, voice and especially oboe. Maurice Andr?, Star of Classical Trumpet, Dies at 78 2012-03-03T05:12:16Z

It works like this: When a violin is chipped or broken, a new piece of wood often is used in the repair. What do college partyers, violin makers and cake decorators have in common?

“She looked trustworthy. Also, she thought Laura’s ukulele was a violin.” Laura Benanti: Actress, singer and passport courier 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Jo Kondo's "Yokohama" proved less stable, with piano puncturing the stately sustaining sounds of a pair of violins and bass flute. To introduce a newly discovered John Cage work, CalArts makes much of 'Minimalism means' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Luisi seemed in his element too, drawing nice spiky tones from the violins during a jaunty section in which the high strings match the clarinet’s piercing lines. Music Review: Luisi Crosses Border To American Territory 2012-01-16T22:54:23Z

Next, Arnold is trying to perfect a "Sherlockophone" – part violin, part trumpet for the TV series. From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

The violin used to be known as the “Ames” Stradivari, for George Ames, the English banker and violinist who owned it briefly in the 19th century. A Stolen Stradivarius Is Recovered, and Lent to a Student 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

I was a perfectionist, and music and the violin became the sole focus of my life. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Prodigy Loses Her ‘Soul Mate’ — a Rare Violin 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Most of the tracks are dominated by guitar or violin, but he also adds banjo, mandolin, lap steel, organ, oud, bouzouki, whistle and flute. Matheu Watson: Dunrobin Place – review 2012-11-22T22:30:01Z

In September of 2010, a study conducted at Indianapolis’s International Violin Competition tested some of the world’s élite violinists for their actual, unbiased preference for either a rare, antique Italian or a high-quality new violin. The 808 Heard Round the World 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The program includes the G minor oboe concerto, the A minor violin concerto and Brandenburg VI, among other pieces. Who's on the guest list? Gilbert Varga, Emerson Quartet and Pink Martini 2010-04-08T20:14:00Z

There he was in military fatigues and boots, surrounded by other recruits, draped in the flag of Kurdistan, the violin nowhere to be seen. Beverly Hills teacher finds violin and Vivaldi in a time of war 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

In the festively decorated Morgan Library atrium, servers passed caviar and savory turnovers while a violin and cello duo played carols. Smithsonian’s new fundraising strategy: collect collectively 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. McPherson has deployed a string section made up of theater’s smallest violins. Review: ‘Dublin Carol’ Gets Lost in Its Drink 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Other strings enter with sustained tones that build into elemental chords, pierced by eerie, high lines on the violins. Music Review: The Tale Those Strings Can Tell 2011-02-04T23:57:02Z

“Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra,” he explained. Arts & Leisure: The Team Player Who Blends Into the Comedy 2011-06-30T15:23:03Z

A magisterial melody on the violin is cushioned by hushed tremolos, flittering rising thirds and delicate trills in the piano. New Recordings: Schubert Fantasie by Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich 2012-07-08T03:53:04Z

The Scherzo zipped along with crisply dispatched passagework in the violins. Review: Thomas Dausgaard Should Be a Philharmonic Regular 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

A trio of violins preformed well-known tunes from George Gershwin and Charlie Parker, as well as Henry Purcell’s “Dido’s Lament” — a sorrowful piece that Costanzo said “responds to the moment in a more emotional way.” With concert halls shut, NY Philharmonic takes to sidewalk 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

Brahms’s Bach study, as he called the transcription, was evidently meant to retain the same sense of challenge, even strain, as Bach’s contrapuntal tour de force for violin. Review: Inon Barnatan Soldiers Through Hallowed Works at 92nd Street Y 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Cape Bretoners, Ms. MacMaster noted, also “crunch” the bow against the strings, creating a raw, scraping sound that would make a high school violin teacher shudder. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The Sō Percussion players use a combination of pencils, violin bows and mallets to achieve a surprisingly broad variety of sounds from the set of four chordsticks. Classical CD review: ‘Music for Wood and Strings’ by Bryce Dessner 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

There’s a woman whose violin is also a bazooka or whatever. A John Wick 'expanded universe' – Hollywood's most idiotic idea yet? 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

On top of this, two violins play politely interlocking canons and patterns. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

I see this often when I fly with the violin case, when they say you can’t bring this bag on the plane. The Violinist Augustin Hadelich Flourishes in New York 2010-04-15T22:18:00Z

The second movement, “A Song for My Father,” features a poignant violin melody, which Mr. Ehnes played with great tenderness. Review: Chamber Music Society, From Mirth to Mortality 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The interlude in the center, the small interlude with the violin solo, is very touching, because it is juxtaposed against very rhythmical, boisterous music. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The show, which is the actress' first professional musical, has given Davis a chance to reconnect with the violin. 'Once' star Elizabeth A. Davis celebrates Tony nod 2012-05-10T11:18:10Z

The movements that follow are arboreal portraits in music: a puckish, dancing duet for the bassoon and a violin; a mysterious nocturne; curlicue phrases choked into fragments; and patient brooding. John Williams in the Concert Hall: An Introduction 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

When the violins begin to play in “Once” — and the accordion and the mandolin and the guitars and the cello — the instruments swell into a collection of distinctive voices melded into a single, universal feeling. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

The quintet, which used strings and classical motifs in its compositions, formed in 1965 and featured Mr. Brown’s father playing violin on its best-known song. Michael Brown, who helped write rock hit ‘Walk Away Renee,’ dies at 65 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“It will come back to you in a demented form. I may hear an Icelandic choir and 18 violins, but as we develop it, it begins to sound more like us.” ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

He started studying piano and violin in elementary school, and his childhood in Pacific Palisades was booked with lessons, rehearsals and concerts. While you're 'Singin' in the Rain' at the Hollywood Bowl, he's keeping the musicians in sync 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Born in 1956, Alsop grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the only child of two busy professional string players; she was drawn early to the violin. A Trailblazing Female Conductor Is Still Alone on the Trail 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

“But he studied with him, and he gave him also a beautiful violin to say thank you when he went back to Japan,” she recalled. Mark O’Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

The audience perambulates around the building following the six singers and three versatile musicians: cello, violin and harpsichord. Dido and Aeneas; Aurora Percussion Duo, Bartosz Glowacki; Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien – review 2013-01-13T00:06:16Z

Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill” Sonata, as befits a violin recital opener, was without so much as a nod in the direction of contemporary ideas about baroque style. 16-year-old violinist SooBenn Lee makes a shining Washington debut 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Washington Performing Arts will present Hahn in recital in April, playing, among other things, a new set of solo violin works commissioned for her. Philadelphians reliably glorious in all-too-reliable repertory 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

And Christian Tetzlaff, the violin soloist, played with golden radiance, sounding almost all the time like the distilled essence of Mozart except when he accelerated slightly jerkily in some of the fast passages. Review | Michael Tilson Thomas shook up the San Francisco Symphony. So why such standard pieces for their victory lap? 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

On Christmas Eve 1906, Fessenden sent the world’s first voice radio broadcast: a holiday program featuring himself playing the violin and singing. We know about Edison, Bell and the Wright Brothers, but Fessenden? 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Kasem’s three children all spoke, and pop music arranger David Campbell played a violin version of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” one of Kasem’s favorite songs. Mourners hear Kasem’s voice at private memorial 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

He started playing the violin when he was four, began composing orchestral music at 10 and took up the viola at 12. J Dilla: the Mozart of hip-hop 2011-01-27T22:15:00Z

“Playing this violin concerto with the Symphony is kind of tied into that.” Violinist James Ehnes and SSO to join forces on Bartók 2014-03-06T20:16:36Z

The next day, I would watch the Grand National Orchestra — with its carved horse-head violins and cow-horn winds — play a rousing rendition of “We Are the Champions.” Next Stop: In Mongolia, the Skyline by the Steppes 2013-08-02T16:45:36Z

Salvaged partly from an abandoned violin concerto, the music was restored here to its initial function, serving to showcase vivacious playing from the violinist David Fulmer. Music Review: Janacek and Mahler in Moving Sounds Festival - Review 2011-09-20T21:00:08Z

The work’s twin solo violin lines were played with such virtuosic fire and lively interaction by Ms. Podger and Walter Reiter that those comparatively freewheeling touches were an enhancement rather than a distraction. Music Review: Period Music, Played With Freewheeling Touches 2010-10-16T01:24:00Z

Now they've added violin and cello to their lineup and they're more of an indie chamber pop group, with a neat line in elegiac melodrama and camply overblown lyrics with the accent on narcissistic melancholia. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z

As a child growing up in a suburb of Philadelphia, Eric spoke sewing the way a violin prodigy speaks music. Back in the Girdle Again: Getting Fitted After a Year Untouched 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

With the early violin and percussion pieces, “1st Concerto” and “Omnipotent Chair,” Harrison’s voice is already clear. A centennial tribute to 'The Divine Mr. Harrison' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

The violin line sits low in the instrument’s register, evoking a whisper, soft as a flute. A Violinist Questions the Musical Divide Between West and East 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The settings are wonderfully spare and insistent, with accompaniments from guitar, piano and violin. Lang: Death Speaks; Depart – review 2013-06-06T20:15:02Z

For this program, Dausgaard rearranged the orchestra’s usual configuration, with the second violins trading places with the cellos. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Narration is barked through a megaphone, and words are usually secondary to the music: loud beats of a drum, cymbal or gong, backing Mr. Schumann’s screechy violin and razzy kazoo. | Bread and Puppet Theater: Bread and Puppet Theater?s ?Attica? and ?Man of Flesh & Cardboard? 2011-12-12T22:23:55Z

The daughter of a pediatric dentist, Song, 14, who lives in Irvine, began playing the violin eight years ago. Students' arts dedication puts them in Spotlight at Disney Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

“You sigh, the song begins / You speak and I hear violins / It’s magic.” The Matchless Presence of Doris Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

He had learned violin by age 3 and was trained at The Julliard School in New York. Phil Ramone, Grammy-Winning Producer, Dead at 72 2013-03-30T17:54:00Z

“Everything he writes is art,” said Mutter, for whom Williams wrote his second violin concerto, which premiered last year. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Violas are sometimes thought of as the unloved stepsisters of violins — rarely in the spotlight, played by fewer famous virtuosos, with less music composed specially for them. For Sale, Playing a Heady Tune 2014-03-25T22:00:59Z

Bands also used a lot of instruments not normally associated with rock: French horn, vibraphone, celesta, violin, cello, tuba, euphonium, pedal steel, autoharp and acoustic bass. Sasquatch! Fest a heady brew of old and new 2011-05-31T01:08:05Z

Furthermore, Morlot reseated the strings for this concert, dividing the first and second violin sections on opposite sides of the stage in the manner favored by his predecessor as music director, Gerard Schwarz. At Seattle Symphony: Elliott Carter premiere, rousing Rossini | Classical review 2013-02-08T17:56:18Z

Schoenberg's music, from the First Chamber Symphony of 1906 to the 1949 Fantasy for violin and piano, dominates the set, but the handful of works by Berg and Webern are well worth hearing. The RIAS Second Viennese School Project – review 2012-12-05T15:30:01Z

The Chicagoan Andrew Bird built cascading melodies and harmonies on his violin, and was joined by his band the Hands of Glory to update vintage country and suggest joyous new avenues for American vernacular music. Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

That night, the New York Philharmonic had “limited availability” for its concert of extremely standard fare — Mozart’s “Turkish” violin concerto, Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Every time Eschenbach seeks to convey an emotional gear-shift, he turns his back to them and communes with the first violins, gradually creating a sense of detachment within the ensemble. NSO review: Despite the stellar guest soloist Bohórquez, consistency is lacking

The musicians were at first out of view; when Oliver Hauser’s lighting revealed them, it was hard to believe there were only three, providing drums, violin and several kinds of singing. Vuyani Dance Theater and Trisha Brown at Fall for Dance 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Almost 5 tons of musical equipment — violins, pianos, guitars and oboes — were trucked in, a gift from the German government and the German Society of Music Merchants. When the music stops: Afghan ‘happy place’ falls silent 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

It’s not like you have to be able to pick up a violin and follow a particular passage of music or be able to execute these specific steps as you would in dance. | Bruce Weber and Kathleen Turner on Becoming Mentors 2013-05-20T23:11:48Z

To hear Prokofiev’s violin sonatas together is to be reminded why the Second is heard more often than the First. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

He originally composed the partita for violin and piano, before orchestrating it and dedicating it to Anne-Sophie Mutter. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z

In the second movement of the Third Symphony, a lyrical phrase travels around the orchestra, innocuous enough, but its insistent repetition becomes eerie, especially when the violins pluck over it like spiders. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z

At one point he created a glowing drone from the vibraphone with two violin bows, clutching them like ski poles. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z

What is past and what is future, what is utopian and what is dystopian in this political theater of the violin and of the mind? With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

“Drunk people with their beers were hitting the stage while the violin solo was going on,” Tankian recalls with a sly grin. System of a Down's Serj Tankian goes classical with symphonic concerts in Northridge 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Led by the group’s director, Fabio Biondi, who played the principal part in the concertos for violin, the program offered a collage of works inspired by nature. Music Review: Europa Galante Brings Vivaldi to Zankel Hall 2014-02-12T22:55:33Z

The best song was a duet in which Sweeney and Carter provided a curiously upbeat treatment of Jack Hall, the story of an 18th-century London execution, which ended with a rousing violin and guitar work-out. Sam Carter – review 2013-03-24T17:54:27Z

IN a dimly lighted hotel room, violinists blinking through vision-obscuring welder’s goggles picked up six violins. News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z

Coleman, who played violin, trumpet and alto saxophone, looked beyond traditional harmonic rules, chord patterns and the American Songbook repertoire. Review: Malcolm Goldstein Offers a Freespirited Salute to Ornette Coleman 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

"They said, `if my guitar contains Brazilian rosewood ... if my violin bow is made of exotic hardwood, is it going to be taken away from me when I travel?'" US proposes 'musical instrument passports' 2013-03-07T14:06:05Z

On Saturday evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the presence of some storied violins made blurry distinctions even more ambiguous than usual. Music Review: Daniel Hope and Karen Gomyo, Violinists, at Met Museum 2012-12-25T22:09:24Z

Each week violin students get Skype lessons from music teachers in Germany and Armenia, funded by the German string quartet Salut Salon. A Classical Music Lover Changes Kenyan Children’s Lives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

But just a few moments later, the strings flood back, violas and violins swooping up through a sudden chord that conjures folk fiddling, energy, passion, life itself. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Cline is accompanied by a raft of LA musicians here, including producer Jon Brion, and the palette is broadened to include violin, cello, reeds and brass. Nels Cline: Dirty Baby ? review 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z

On its 1990s albums, Matthews’s guitar — often acoustic — was the band’s only chordal instrument, joined in light-fingered counterpoint by saxophone, violin, bass and drums for staccato grooves that blended folk, funk and jazz. Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

The bone-dry acoustics of the Theater Lab require extra effort to create sonority, but the violin pizzicati in the ­Webern simply vanished, chords went unvibrated, and there was not enough projection in expressive passages. Shaw’s terrific ‘Blueprint’ felt too short 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The San Diego native plays piano and violin and is a competitive gymnast. The kids steal the show in ‘The Sound of Music’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

A concert offering all four of Charles Ives’s craggy violin sonatas might seem at first more a music history lesson than an engaging program. Review: Jeremy Denk and Stefan Jackiw’s Lessons in Ives’s Nostalgic Sonatas 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

And after an alert, agile burst of a beginning, the performance meandered — always a risk in this unwieldy score — in the slow passages that follow the violin solo in the third section, “The Hero’s Companion.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Richard Strauss 2013-12-13T22:39:30Z

Born in Beijing, Mr. Huang began studying violin with his mother when he was 7, after moving to Houston. Frank Huang to Succeed Glenn Dicterow as New York Philharmonic Concertmaster 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

"A violin is worth more than a recycler's house," says Chávez. Paraguayan landfill orchestra makes sweet music from rubbish 2013-04-26T14:02:55Z

The violin section included a Turkish engineer and a Dutch airline pilot. Over 16 Years, Simon Rattle Transformed the Berlin Philharmonic. Here’s How. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The music suggests the permanence of art, the silent violin the ephemerality of our experience of it. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Nekrotzar goes marching up the aisle to the sounds of a tiny piccolo and violin. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

All in all, his performance displayed the endless and contrasting sonic character of each organ, serving to dispel the common notion of “the organ” — as, for instance, “the Stradivarius” violin — being a single instrument. Christopher Candela dispels the notion that all organ music sounds the same

Some of that hopelessness is his own fault—there’s that mumbled “better than you” to the woman asking about the violin lessons, after all. “Louie” and the walking uterus: When ugly liberal entitlement and surrogate pregnancy collide 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The most unexpectedly delightful feature is the three-member band of stage musicians — playing a saxophone, an accordion and a tangy violin — that adds vibrant improvised interjections in different folkloric idioms. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

There are male and female harmonies and the multi-instrumental surprises — guitar, cello, violin, harmonica, xylophone and whistling. Music Match: If You Like Fleetwood Mac, Try the Kopecky Family Band 2013-05-14T16:44:20Z

Guy sings her quirky, asymmetrical, personal songs in a breathy voice, accompanying herself vigorously on violin or viola and, often on recordings, percussion and a variety of other modern classical textures. Northwest Folklife Festival offers sneak preview 2011-04-21T23:17:44Z

Among the exhibits on display at the Royal Academy of Music during its centenary tribute to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin is a single page of a Bach violin sonata. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

In 1995, Cline donated the camp violin to the World War II museum aboard the aircraft carrier Intrepid docked in New York. National Symphony Orchestra violist plays heirloom built by grandfather 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

As she passionately sliced her violin bow across her body, over and over again, it cast elongated shadows across the stage’s backdrop of towering bamboo stalks bathed in green light. Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes are honored at Hammer Museum gala, where the talk turns political 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

“It is sad and it is completely unnecessary,” said Mary Ellen Goree, the former principal second violin of the orchestra, who was involved in negotiations. San Antonio Symphony to Dissolve Amid Labor Dispute 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The musical accompaniment includes one and two pianos, piano and violin and taped voice. City Ballet Creates A Troupe For Touring 2011-01-06T22:45:21Z

Corrosive brasses and heated strings enlivened the Respighi’s first movement, and gray-toned woodwinds, transparent violins, and luxuriant cellos and basses colored the second. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

The music roves between solace and goofiness, with the strings playing rich, quasi-Romantic themes, supplying nervous tremolos or gently joshing the characters; the robot’s tentative stirrings of affection are high, sliding violin notes. Review: ‘Nufonia Must Fall’ Shares the Heart of Kid Koala’s Robot Tale 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The years that followed, in which she earned a living accompanying ballet and modern-dance classes on piano, violin and percussion, were her compositional laboratory. Caroline Shaw, Award-Winning Composer 2013-04-18T00:31:19Z

The orchestra emits a murky mass of soft tremulous sounds, like some primordial stew, from which the violin emerges, posing the first thoughts, the first questions. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z

The first movement opens with a ruminative yet restless violin line, evocative of improvised folk singing. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The Mendelssohn Piano Trio traversed all three of Schubert’s mature pieces for piano, violin, and cello at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday. Trio shows Schubert’s challenges 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

Like many violin experts, Mr. Zukerman cautions that some Strads are better than others. News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z

Carlson took a leave from college to devote herself to violin practice and grueling workouts. It’s not just about bikinis: Inside the battle for the future of Miss America 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

He alternated the two piano sonatas with Prokofiev’s popular two violin sonatas, performed with the appealingly straightforward Guy Braunstein, their partnership settled and comfortable. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev’s Overlooked Piano Sonatas 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

The only sounds were Anderson's violin and keyboard, Zorn's alto sax, and Reed's electric guitar. Lou Reed booed in Canada for free-improv set 2010-07-05T09:08:00Z

As a violin teacher, I am used to students graduating or moving on for one reason or another. Beverly Hills teacher finds violin and Vivaldi in a time of war 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Loops of her beats and her raw violin lines are still the core of her music, but collaborating producers add new possibilities: wilder counterpoint, psychedelic hazes, orchestral cushioning. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

The concertos of Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, in which his violin cut jubilantly through the orchestral forest in even the most acrobatic passages. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Christina, dressed in a strapless lace and tulle mermaid gown with a crystal belt that sparkled under the stage lights, made her grand entrance while violins played Queen’s “Somebody to Love.” On Love: Michael Innocenti and Christina Coakley 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

“He kept saying, ‘Why do you have your violins?,’ and we kept saying, ‘We’re musicians.’ Britain?s Conflicting Entry Rules Stymie Visiting Artists 2011-10-19T21:55:14Z

A selection of about half the music from the original score, in an arrangement for piano, violin and clarinet, did not always hold together securely through the constantly shifting time signatures. Review | The In Series aims to make ‘Atlantis’ great again 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The volume and intensity of the ensemble rose, with howling spikes in the violins and tapping on the bodies of the cellos. Music Review: Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2012-06-05T21:54:39Z

Similarly, the incidental musical accompaniment, amounting at times to a few wan plinks on a violin or thumps of a drum, provides an alienating, rather than moodily advantageous, counterpoint. Review | ‘The Winter’s Tale’ should warm your heart. This one leaves you cold.  2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

White's new sextet was airtight, but the upright string bass, violin and piano dampened the crackling quality of the White Stripes' "Black Math" and "Dead Leaves and Dirty Ground." Sasquatch 2012 Saturday review: Jack White, Portlandia, more 2012-05-27T18:53:54Z

Sonically, “Athena” builds on the experiments of the previous two EPs, combining her airy vocals with hip-hop beats and her violin, with which she references both Irish and African fiddle traditions. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

In December, she appeared at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan, where she played harp ukulele, accompanied by a double base and violin. Gracie Terzian, Jeffrey Emanuel 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

The voices of 36 choristers mix with the organ, a trumpet, a baritone horn, a violin, cymbals and the thundering timpani, as 400 congregants, packed cheek by jowl, join in. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

The result amplified the violin’s physical essence: It was a concert in which one felt keenly the instrument’s wood and wire. Review | Leila Josefowicz presents the violin, unfiltered, in Library of Congress recital 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

Orellana, 90, studied classical violin and composition in Guatemala, then embracing the avant-garde work of Arnold Schoenberg and electronic music in Buenos Aires during the 1960s. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

I’ve also seen novelty bottles shaped like violins, fish or even a skull. Know your wine bottle: What’s up with the different shapes, sizes 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

But counterpoint among the violins was murky, and musical inspiration ran short during the morbid concluding Rondo, after which a sizable portion of an already thinning audience departed. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z

The English contingent responded, with sturdy and elegant solo work from Pickett and Penelope Spencer on violin. Carlos Núñez, Philip Pickett and Musicians of the Globe – review 2013-02-03T18:50:33Z

As the war gains momentum, Geneviève goes to Paris to further her study of the violin. Family Sagas: Three Novels Probe Generations of Secrets 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Her entry, “A Shared Solitary” — a searing solo work for violin and electronics, performed by Jannina Norpoth of the PUBLIQuartet — felt like a line drawing of a far more complex musical universe. Perspective | 21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

But in this recital, presented by Washington Performing Arts, the star soloist returned to surer ground, making glorious sounds from his violin in his favorite Romantic repertoire . Review | Finding escape from despair in Bell’s Romantic recital 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Clarissa is Italian, received some of her musical education in Chicago and is now completing her bachelor’s degree in violin in Piacenza. The high note in this family’s Italian vacation? Cremona. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

She took piano and violin lessons as a child. Maralin Niska, Lyric Soprano at New York City Opera Who Won Hearts, Dies at 89 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

In fact, earlier this month a Stradivari violin valued at as much as $10 million went unsold at Christie’s after it was found in the Manhattan home of a reclusive American heiress. A $45 Million Viola? The World's Newest Most-Expensive Instrument 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Rahman’s “In the Light of What We Know” circles around the haunting memory of a technically adept but emotionally empty performance of the Chaconne from Bach’s second violin partita. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

The trio opens with sustained, hushed, eerie intervals in the piano and violin, through which the clarinet pierces with an elusive melodic line. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-21T23:13:14Z

His band, the 400 Unit, sounds more deeply engaged on this album, with rugged arrangements sweetened by Ms. Shires’s violin, or by a Mellotron. Review: Jason Isbell’s ‘Something More Than Free’ 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

The way Adès pitches the violin writing high up, almost daring the soloist to sustain it, recalls the extreme tessitura for the soprano role of Ariel in his opera “The Tempest.” The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

She grew up in Brookline, Mass., beginning her musical training on violin. Mary Halvorson on Guitar: Unflinching and Full of Grace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

They were husband-and-wife artists in the Odessa Philharmonic — he plays the cello, she the violin — sharing a love for Bach partitas and the music from “Star Wars.” An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

The humorous piece, written in 1991, when Mr. Adès was a student, is scored for piano, violin, cello and clarinet: The first three instruments cajole the clarinetist into joining the proceedings. Review: Axiom Displays Its New-Music Range at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

When he was 3, a family friend suggested a remedy for his hyperactivity: a tiny violin and the discipline of the Suzuki method. Vilified for Virus, Bats Are a New Album’s Seductive Stars 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

The acts included sudden slides; a long unison squeal; a tiny, precious duet of little scratches between the first violin and the cello; and a passage of nearly lilting, Mendelssohnian delicacy. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The concert’s string section alone had 24 violins. One Musical Knockout After Another 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

A violin maker, attorney and lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law, Shapreau is on a research mission to bring Nazi persecution of Jewish musicians to light. Researcher's mission to show Nazis' silencing of music during Holocaust 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Surprisingly, it was Brahms’s violin concerto that proved the least persuasive part of the program. Music Review: Joshua Bell Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2014-04-01T23:25:00Z

She played the violin in her youth and majored in music and German in college, but ultimately decided she didn’t have the goods for a professional career. New president Deborah Rutter is Kennedy Center’s breath of fresh air from Windy City

The violins played long notes on high, not unlike the angelic overture to Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” as the horns droned down below. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Two veterans who are married to each other are retiring: Marc Ginsberg, principal of the second violin group, after 44 years; and Judith Ginsberg, violin, after 30 years. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

He never harboured any ambitions other than to play the violin, often saying he was born a violinist, had always been a violinist and would die a violinist. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

The only problem with playing so many works together is that, inevitably, pieces for solo violin are going to have aspects in common. Review: JACK Quartet and Jennifer Koh in the NY Phil Biennial 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Vikhrova fled for the Czech Republic with her daughter and mother, bringing a few hundred dollars in savings, some clothes and her violin. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

"In 27 Pieces" was conceived as a collection of short encores, most for acoustic violin and piano. Hilary Hahn unpacks new works in Seattle 2011-10-13T21:55:04Z

Instruments slowly join in, including a pensive solo violin. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps “designated percussionist” would be a more appropriate term: Mr. Sánchez-Gutiérrez enlisted members normally assigned to flute, clarinet, violin and cello to play percussion instruments as well. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z

Thile is particularly amazing to watch and to hear, strumming and tapping and scratching his mandolin, then exploding into impossibly fast fingerwork as challenging as any violin concerto. Premiere of ‘Inland Seas’ generates buzz at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

One day in the late 1980s, a graying man, with a prisoner identification number tattooed on his arm, walked into a Tel Aviv shop that sold and repaired violins. In this concert, musicians will perform on instruments played by Jews before and during the Holocaust 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

In the original scenario the Soldier takes out his fiddle, the violin plays a jaunty tune in a section called “Airs by a Stream,” and the Devil offers his trade. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z

And that in his prime as a virtuoso performer — say, the 1960s through the 1990s — Perlman was often the one that American music fans went to for high-quality recordings of the great composers' violin compositions. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The folk fiddler Joe Townsend claims that his violin has never sounded better since he lent it to an old Transylvanian Gypsy. The Gypsy Bible - review 2010-10-17T21:15:00Z

Between the violin works Mr. Stein examined the unusual nexus of virtuosity and introspection in solo keyboard works by Muffat and Froberger. Music Review: Exploring the Intricacies of the 17th Century 2011-07-31T21:56:33Z

His violin was valued at $250,000 when it was stolen; these days, Stradivarius violins often sell for millions of dollars. Roman Totenberg’s Stolen Stradivarius Is Found After 35 Years 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Denk considers the music of Charles Ives "a big part" of his life, and Ives' four violin concertos are on the schedule. Jeremy Denk, in words and music 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Push farther into the park, and a sweet violin melody emerges over languid piano chords. Bluebrain?s App Central Park (Listen to the Light) 2011-12-07T23:35:57Z

But the music conveying this image seemed anything but rudderless, with slashing, dissonant piano chords, toccata-like streams of rushing notes from the violin, and buzzes and sputters from the cello. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

“He despised the conventional idea of what was a beautiful violin sound,” Mr. Kalish said. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

He followed the old tradition of labeling them as piano sonatas with violin accompaniment, but as important as the piano part is, we now hear the instruments as unequal, the violin dominating. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Born in London to first-generation immigrants from Guyana, Kendall grew up in a musical household and took violin lessons from the age of 4, later gravitating to vocal performance. Meet the fast-rising young composer who’s created a work Seattle Symphony is debuting in the U.S. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bell is scheduled to present a violin tour de force, the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saëns. The Week Ahead: Sept. 12 ? Sept. 18 2010-09-10T15:37:00Z

It’s followed on Tuesday with the violinist Jennifer Koh performing some 30 short works for solo violin written by as many contemporary composers in response to Paganini’s Caprices. Classical Music Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Jarvis says that his doubts about the authorship of the cello suites arose when he perceived “vast differences” between these works and the ones for solo violin. The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I started playing early music when I was 14,” says Pine, who also performs on Renaissance violin. Rachel Barton Pine: violinist, headbanger, SBO guest conductor 2014-01-10T21:57:13Z

“My light is playing the violin,” says Perez, who’s played since kindergarten. Joe's Violin: a Holocaust survivor, a schoolgirl and an unlikely friendship 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

The first time the solo violin comes in, it repeats the phrase note for note. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

He dedicated his “Irkanda IV,” which features a mournful violin lament, to his father. Peter Sculthorpe, Composer Steeped in Australia’s Sounds, Dies at 85 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

A young girl practises violin at home in a slum area of Caracas. José Antonio Abreu on Venezuela's El Sistema miracle 2012-06-14T19:00:02Z

The playing was too good to need the cheesy dressing up, despite the informality extending occasionally to the violin tuning; the upbeat numbers were every bit as alive as Sorrell obviously intended. Apollo's Fire ? review 2010-12-02T21:46:00Z

This professional violin and bow-making school is open to small groups by appointment. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

The program ended with Brahms’s Trio in E flat for horn, violin and piano, an innovative combination of instruments for the time. Music Review: Hearing ?Spring? as Summer Fades 2010-09-05T22:32:00Z

He never studied voice; he took violin lessons as a child and played with a Gypsy band in a restaurant owned by his father. 2010-01-20T06:55:00Z

He grew up inspired by attending concerts given by violin greats such as Joseph Szigeti and Fritz Kreisler, and drew his own beautiful sound from a Stradivari. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

Bernstein's "Serenade" is seen by Joshua Bell as being "in the top violin repertory of the 20th century, up there with Prokofiev and Shostakovich." Seattle Symphony opens season with Joshua Bell, former Gov. Dan Evans 2012-09-12T02:11:03Z

Plus, there would be the expense of ostrich daycare, ostrich violin lessons; in the future, god help you, ostrich college. More women like me are choosing to be childfree. Is this the age of opting out? 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

During a pause in Chen’s part, he gave an extra violin string he was carrying to Lin, who replaced the E string. Watch what happens when star soloist Ray Chen’s violin string breaks while performing with Seattle Symphony 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

In 1891 some descendants auctioned much of the family’s memorabilia, which included items signed by George Washington, his shoe buckles, walking cane and violin, along with deeds, correspondence, account books, surveys and wills. Owning George Washington: The Auction 2011-04-06T21:53:42Z

This 20-minute work in three movements explores circular patterns in which spiraling, sometimes frenzied violin riffs coalesce into long spans of breathless, propulsive orchestral wildness. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z

When you began the Academy, weren't you conducting from a chair because you also were playing the violin? Sir Neville Marriner conducts his 90th birthday tour with grace, humor 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

She continued: “Why would Keir pick up a violin to play, and why would I dance to it? It’s amazing to understand the why, and so much gets answered from there.” Opera’s ‘Island of Misfit Toys’ Takes Its Biggest Stage Yet 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

The dramatic Lento features a violin cadenza, which Ms. Hristova played with flair. Music Review: Showcase for Bella Hristova at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-04-22T21:19:00Z

Schubert’s Fantasy is one of the most sophisticated, beautiful pieces ever written for violin and piano. Anne-Sophie Mutter: ‘I’m a work in progress’ 2013-03-01T00:50:19Z

Shrieking violins suggest some fast-approaching threat, while bow sticks striking their strings evoke fraying nerves or an inundation of tiny insects; and chaotic percussion simulate the protagonist’s heart-racing panic. These Composers Are Maestros of Menace 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

This eclectic work for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano blends popular and classical styles, with references to songs like “Blue Moon” by Rodgers and Hart, and incorporates both strict and free notation. Music Review: Following a Contemporary Palette as It Ranges From Peru to China 2011-01-25T23:14:56Z

Lovers of violins, violas, cellos and all things stringy have one more chance to catch the American String Project at Benaroya Hall. The Week Ahead: Folklife and Sasquatch festivals are arts highlights 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z

She continues in her role as composer-in-residence with the world premiere of a newly commissioned violin concerto for SSO’s 14th annual Celebrate Asia concert on March 20. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

In another, she warns her father of his impending doom, backed by a violin and a mournful harmonium. Review: ‘Songs of Lear,’ We Hear Cordelia Singing 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

In 1969 David Balakrishnan, then a teenage violin student, attended a Jimi Hendrix concert in Los Angeles that led him to reconsider his approach to his instrument, and to music more broadly. Music Review: Unplugging the Hendrix Experience 2011-03-03T21:18:08Z

He reworked Vivaldi's violin concertos for keyboard and orchestra; he also recast his own music to suit pragmatic ends, so what was once a lute suite ended up the next week rewritten for solo cello. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

In a subtle violin passage, he told the players “to use your fingers in a less clinical way.” Mahler's Second Symphony, the Tilson Thomas Way 2010-07-09T16:31:00Z

The loss of the ability to immediately recognize friends and acquaintances is one of the more minor “tiny violin” tragedies of the coronavirus pandemic. We’re having trouble recognizing each other in masks, and it’s getting awkward 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

At times the recording is no more than a click track, beats on what sounds like a wood block, and the violin, cello and piano weave deftly around it. Music Review: Joel Sachs Takes New Juilliard Ensemble to MoMA 2010-07-26T23:43:00Z

Otherwise, the 26-minute Jalbert concerto behaved the way most violin concertos do, with some patches of sustained song, plenty of virtuoso display points, two cadenzas for the soloist. For Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the welcome return of some familiar faces 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

The ballet is a stylized parade of myths from the distant past, but for Bangalter the project also has a kind of post-apocalyptic, back-to-basics optimism: “After everything, the violin will remain.” Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

And the finale, which, on the surface, seems a rustic dance, here sounded modern and wild, with the violin fixating on obsessive rhythmic riffs against the swirling orchestra. Review: At New York Philharmonic, a Soloist but Not His Violin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

A plaintive violin melody, beautifully wrought by Ms. Alikhanova, weaves through the second, played with intensity here. Music Review: Moscow String Quartet at Frick Collection - Review 2011-10-04T20:14:39Z

Da Capo’s solution was lovely: a frenetic opening, with vigorous repeating figures for violin, cello and flute, settled quickly into a quiet, atmospheric meditation and then suddenly evaporated. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-10-12T21:03:33Z

Faintly wailing violin lines interact with oscillating intervals and murky chords in the piano. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The current world record auction price for a musical instrument is $15.9 million, which was achieved in an online auction in June 2011 for the "Lady Blunt" Stradivari violin made in 1721. Rare Stradivari viola fails to sell in sealed-bid auction 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, a violin repair took place onstage, as Chen’s instrument got handed to violinist Mae Lin. Watch what happens when star soloist Ray Chen’s violin string breaks while performing with Seattle Symphony 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

Feingold originally purchased his violin with a carton of cigarettes shortly after the end of World War II — and the deaths of his mother and younger brother in the Treblinka concentration camp. The incredible journey of “Joe’s Violin” 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Instead, Washburn formed the Sparrow Quartet, a chamber ensemble featuring the highly unusual combination of violin, cello and two banjos. Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring 2011-01-20T23:08:01Z

Dai Wei is writing a new piece for Todd Reynolds — for his electronics, and for his incredible violin chops. Virus Pushes the Bang on a Can Marathon Online 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

As for her violin, as well as play it in the conventional manner, Bittová likes to strum it banjo-style, or pluck it with any object to hand. Iva Bittová: 'My intuition works very well' I Alex Needham 2013-03-14T07:09:14Z

I have to say Mr. Reynolds won me over even before the start of the concert, when I heard him actually tune his violin backstage. From Silence to Noise: Rauschenberg’s Influence on Music 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

This trio — for piano, violin and cello — is a work in a decidedly French mode that Ms. de la Martinez said verges on Impressionism. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The first violinist must play a stratospheric melody while also sustaining a midrange A. The second violin enters with an undulant accompaniment, also curiously high. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

Ittai Shapira brought the solo violin writing to life with a sweet, plaintive tone and an almost narrative approach to phrasing. Music Review: At Merkin Concert Hall, Concertante Blends New and Old 2010-05-18T21:26:00Z

In this concerto the most important thing is the solo violin. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

She pushed her relentlessly, signing her up for 6 a.m. violin lessons with an extra-prestigious teacher. A Bereaved Daughter Delves Into Her Mother’s Secrets 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Benjamin guides the music from glassy slides in the violin and celesta to dreamy passages punctuated by rhythmic beats. Orchestra of St. Luke’s Explores George Benjamin’s Influence 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

She told AP that the only item she brought with her out of Ukraine was her violin and the clothes she was wearing. Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine youth orchestra flees the country 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

But after a few glasses of rosé on the lawn, as the sun began to set, we heard a violin begin to play. | An Old-School Hotel in the Berkshires That’s Perfect for Just Staying Put 2013-08-02T17:00:42Z

His Eurydice is irritated with Orpheus’s incessant violin playing and has an affair with the shepherd next door, who turns out to be Pluto, god of the underworld. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The mariachi was originally inspired in part by Spanish theatrical orchestras, which included violins, the harp and guitars. Mariachi fights for its place in a Mexico dominated by youth-oriented genres 2010-09-10T04:01:00Z

Sometimes the violin has very active moments followed by the briefest sense of being able to plane without having to add any acceleration, to just coast — and then it’s time to be active again. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Anne Manson conducted the Juilliard Orchestra in a vibrant reading of the piece, with its shimmering palette, including harp ripples, colorful outbursts on the piano and elusive violin melodies. Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z

Ms. Kim Harris, on violin, plays her own “8:46,” a homage to George Floyd that sounds like a slow suffocation over that many minutes and seconds. Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Porcha Mason, 16, who's played the violin for five years, said she tells her friends, who prefer hip-hop, they should listen to classical music. A crowded free day of music at Seattle Symphony 2011-09-19T18:14:21Z

The 21st century has been a strong one for violin concertos. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

A pensive, chromatic unaccompanied violin melody opened “Dyade,” a world premiere, with a shadowy bass line soon drifting in its wake. Music Review: Old Hand and a New One Crossing Paths in Harmony 2011-04-05T20:56:47Z

Here Tippett weaves the dance around strains of “When I am laid in earth,” from Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas,” set here as a lustrous violin solo. Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-13T23:12:41Z

In the original 1937 script both the fighting and the violin playing happen offstage. Seth Numrich of ‘Golden Boy’ Polishes His Boxing Moves 2013-01-14T22:11:05Z

Later, on walk home after rehearsal ends, Paul cuts through England-Pakistan cricket over, grabs Hofner violin bass by neck and swats a six to win test match. The (totally real) "Get Back" deleted scenes we'll never see 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Try the epic first movement of the Third Symphony for size, especially as it careers to an unstoppable churning tsunami just before the end, before dissipating in a filigree spray of flute and violin. A guide to Peter Maxwell Davies's music 2012-08-20T16:14:00Z

The Saint-Saëns was colored by the rough punch of cymbals, the cry of trombones, the jabbing of violin bows as the instruments seemed to pant together for breath. Review | Noseda, NSO offer French program with Italian accent 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

A: I remember picking up the violin when I was 2 because my mom’s an incredible violinist. Q&A with Jacob Collier: Growing up in a room packed with instruments, learning from Quincy Jones and finding his voice 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

And on Saturday and Sunday, Mr. Peskanov will round out his complete survey of the Beethoven violin sonatas, with the pianist Nina Kogan. Classical Music Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

At one point, he was about to be shot or buried alive with 105 other people when he was pulled from the group at the last minute because he played violin. Music of Remembrance ‘To Life!’ concert honors 4 musicians who survived the Holocaust 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

McCluskie largely avoids competition with the past by concentrating on violas instead of violins; he figures he has made about 300. Stringing together a passion and a livelihood 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the concerto in D minor, BWV 1052, again Bach's own transcription of a concerto originally for violin, embraced more passionate engagement, with flowing rhythms and contrapuntal lines. Kammerorchester Basel/Schr?der/Hewitt 2010-05-25T21:00:00Z

It felt a bit like a Between the Ears programme in its use of haunting music to amplify its themes, but also Lives in a Landscape with accompaniment on cello, violin and viola. Radio review: Supermarket Symphony 2011-07-10T19:29:00Z

Two weeks later, at a violin concerto premiere with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Cerrone met her parents. The Classical Concert That Changed Their Lives 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Unless, of course, they plan a road trip to Delaware — perhaps hitching a ride with a violin maker. What do college partyers, violin makers and cake decorators have in common?

As these artists realize, their predicaments were hardly worth cuing the violins at a time of rampant death and unemployment. For Kenny Chesney and Others, Promotion in a Pandemic Is a Quandary 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

To my amazement and relief, the violin and bow were unharmed, although threatened by splinters of the wooden box around the scroll of the violin. Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z

Despite going through conservatory and getting a degree in violin performance, Andrew Bird has always felt like an outsider in the world of classical music. Andrew Bird gets confessional, at last: “I really wanted to make a less whimsical, more visceral, grab-you-in-the-gut kind of record” 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

So the duo applied the same kind of musical cross-pollination responsible for its gold-certified 1997 debut album "Homework" and commercial breakthrough "Discovery" to recording violin arpeggios, surging horns and roiling timpani. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z

Would she be happier with a violin or cello?’” he said. Solo for Flute, Airport Terminal and One Listener 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Another, billed as the Ro-Bow, uses computer programming and mechanical rods to play tunes on a violin. A retired engineer’s latest sculpture is a bicycle, back-scratcher and cookie dispenser — all in one 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Especially when you're 4 years old, a violin literally grows with you. Violinist Ray Chen, 27, on his new group and classical music in the Instagram age 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

There was an unpleasant edge to the violins as Strauss’s “Sunset” passage arrived; murkiness from the brasses; and an overall need of focus. Review: The Philharmonic and a Conductor Get Reacquainted 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

The violin legend is 73 this year, and some recent reviews may refer to the twilight of his career. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

All of Fade’s sides, be it tranquil guitar fuzz ambiance or sky-reaching violins, still reflect the same band living in the same time and place – that wasn’t always the case in years past. Yo La Tengo Brings Fresh Sound to Fade 2013-01-16T16:00:10Z

But it sometimes sounds orchestral or cavernous, like church organs or violins or piccolos sounding in an enormous space. New Music: New Music by Kevin Hufnagel, Jimmy Owens and Guided by Voices 2012-01-03T00:53:03Z

Andrew Armstrong's piano rocked lightly back and forth, while Andrew Wan's violin sang a wistful melody. Review: Chamber-fest concert nourished body, mind and soul 2010-07-15T20:56:00Z

The woodwinds and percussion dampen the shine of violins. L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The violins that De Pue and Kendall were carrying are considered to be valuable. Violinists' protest against US Airways becomes an online hit 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

In "The Godfather," so many of those little cues were just a horn or a violin. Lana Del Rey talks about her Globe-nominated 'Big Eyes' title track 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

They looked so real that people reportedly tried to grab painted violins and dollar bills off the wall. "Is It Cake?" feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

In ways that sometimes looked painful, the intrepid dancers wrestled with one another and the floor, accompanied live by the violin duo String Noise. Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Around her, an orchestra darkened by the absence of its violin sections murmured and roiled, its sound colored with itchy harpsichord, twinkling celesta and harps, burnished Wagner tubas and an enormous, roaring tam-tam. Music Review: Orchestra and Violin, Matching Wits 2011-04-01T22:59:41Z

This is the music of natural forces indifferent to human witnesses; yet in those violins and their sense of looming urgency, a doleful cry for help — from Thorvaldsdottir, from the earth itself — begins to emerge. Review: A Guest Conductor Reveals the Philharmonic’s Potential 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

His father, Sidney, played the violin and piano. Bobby Vee, clean-cut teen idol of 1960s pop, dies at 73 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

In the second section, “Kullervo’s Youth,” a downward violin motif unfolded with glistening clarity over the lower strings. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z

But Lutoslawski wrote a later version of the Partita for violin, piano and orchestra, dedicating it to Mutter. Anne-Sophie Mutter: ‘I’m a work in progress’ 2013-03-01T00:50:19Z

For example, because you have two cellos and two violins, you can have symmetrical configurations you can’t get with a top-heavy string quartet.” Adventurous JACK Quartet returns to Seattle June 11 2013-06-10T17:48:30Z

St. Martin’s was originally intended to be led solely by Mr. Marriner from the violin, but as it grew in size and began to play more complicated works, closer control was necessary. Neville Marriner, who led renowned Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

In August, her uncle sent the instrument back to Zohra’s mother in Ghazni, along with a violin, a flute and a harmonium. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The celesta sounded magically eerie, as ever, but string sound doesn't glow in the Festival Hall, the violins lost their nerve on one or two entries, and the resulting performance seemed more than ideally chilly. Philharmonia/Salonen ? review 2011-02-11T18:04:52Z

Police are working to confirm the violin is the one stolen from Frank Almond in a brazen attack outside Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee Jan. 27. Violin thought to be stolen 300-year-old Stradivarius recovered 2014-02-06T14:43:21Z

When Stasevska was 8, her parents gave her a violin, telling her she could make a profession out of playing an instrument. A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

Instead, bookended by Bach’s two best-known violin concertos — in A minor and E — the concert featured two transcriptions by Mr. Dantone. Review: A Perfectly Acceptable Slice of Bach 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert, was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; his father, now retired, was a violinist in the orchestra, and his mother still plays in the violin section. Gilbert to Head Juilliard?s Conducting Program 2011-01-12T22:57:38Z

The coordination between Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Firth was so smooth that the violin and piano exchanged long, skipping melodic lines that suggested two musicians in a side-by-side sprint. Music Review: Making Standards Swing, With a Wink for Jack Benny 2011-04-22T22:56:03Z

It opens with a searching, angular solo violin theme that insistently repeats to the backdrop of a cascading piano chorale. Pekka Kuusisto/Olli Mustonen – review 2013-04-14T17:12:07Z

The performance subtly, almost stealthily, balanced the work’s elements of exotic strangeness and overtly virtuosic violin writing. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra, With Colin Davis - Review 2011-10-20T21:57:49Z

When the violins shimmered on high, we imagined the heavens glittering in all their radiance. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Will the violin get in the way of the delivery of the words? What was the X Factor of the 18th century? 2012-05-17T09:38:55Z

Woolley is the first to identify the significance of the work, which is missing a part for the second violin. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered 2010-10-07T09:26:00Z

Since your first violin concerto, you have written several concertos for other instruments. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

On the violin, if you're nervous, you're literally dealing with fiber on fiber, the sound is a direct correlation to every nuance on your body. 'Chaplin' star talks about learning famous walk 2012-09-17T17:18:08Z

After I mastered my first concerto at age 14, my parents decided to get me a nice violin. How a violin helped me find my voice 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Garcia started with violin and piano as a young child, then discovered an old silver clarinet in the house. Nubya Garcia, Tapping Into the Past to Make Jazz for a New Generation 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

To understand how the Hindustani violin works, I would watch her videos, stopping frame by frame. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

McGuinness is a fan of the everything-including-the-kitchen-sink style of arrangement, but his songs wear the violins and xylophones lightly; moreover, he's of a spiky lyrical bent. Eugene McGuinness: The Invitation to the Voyage – review 2012-08-02T20:30:01Z

Using a violin, a piano, a cello and a guitar, the three students worked through three songs that received a warm reception from the audience. Eagles' Glenn Frey teaches songwriting; talks tour 2012-11-16T04:18:11Z

He also helped extend the era of broad appreciation for the violin among those less admiring of classical music. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The program opened with Mr. Magloire’s new “Symmetry,” set to Handel violin sonatas. Dance Review: 104 Degrees of Spirited Dancing 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z

Piano and violin swell with emotion while Josiah Johnson sings of travel and home, but the Head and the Heart keep on the right side of the sincere/saccharine divide. What our writers love this week 2010-08-25T22:57:00Z

An instrumental sextet — violin, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, prominent accordion and piano — sound just right, be it one minute Mexican, the next Stravinskian. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

When Ms. Suwa and her violin returned to Japan, the whispers followed. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z

A curious cadenza for solo violin leads into the most tumultuous stretch, though that mood dissolves as instruments drift off, and the piece ends quizzically. Review: 19 Female Composers Start to Mark a Century of Suffrage 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

In a still life with a violin, Gris needled their bromance rivalry with a newspaper headline about two adventurers fighting over a discovery: “Explorers at Odds …” Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Ted Hearne’s “Vessels,” for violin, viola and piano, creates an abstract yet alluringly visual image. Music Review: Wet Ink in Gaudeamus Muziekweek at New Issue Project Room 2012-01-28T00:48:03Z

My dad used to be an instrument maker — violin, cello. New Jersey Symphony’s New Director on Defining Her Own Sound 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The violin concerto, though, was compact and dazzling. RSNO/Den?ve ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:46Z

But the music is carried by lyrical, melodic stretches in the violins. Review: A Mariachi Opera Addresses Roiling Issues of Immigration 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

He directs while playing the violin with the athleticism of a skateboarder: half on, half off his podium, poised and daring. ACO/Tognetti 2010-08-31T22:00:00Z

“It was absolutely extraordinary to open the first violin part and find those pages,” he told Opera News in 2011. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Her tone mimicked the wiry quality of a period gut-string violin. Review: Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Philharmonic supplies principals for first violin, viola, double bass, oboe, bassoon, horn, tuba, timpani and percussion. ArtsBeat: In Caracas, Doubling Up the Orchestra 2012-02-16T12:08:41Z

Piercing violin lines and wistful harmonies in the orchestra speak for the silent Clémentine, and Grétry daringly prolongs the tension in the scene, as we wait for the rose to be dropped. Music Review: Unearthing A Charmer Predating Bastille Day 2011-02-11T21:54:28Z

The piano and violin introduce themselves by trading rhapsodic flourishes and soon proceed to a competitive musical conversation. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z

Both performed with the unnamed ensemble, essentially a chamber orchestra in which the violin and viola sections were replaced by six guitarists, with Mr. Utley as essentially the concertmaster. Music Review: ?Passion de Jeanne d?Arc? at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-31T21:57:44Z

The greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century. Jascha Heifetz's vast recorded legacy lives on 2011-06-08T13:53:00Z

Before the concert the ticket line was so long that Mark Peskanov, Bargemusic’s president and artistic director, took his violin outside to serenade the waiting ticket buyers. Music Review: Sharp Interplay and Melting Lyricism 2011-07-04T20:28:33Z

The trio performed a nearly hour-long improvisation whose wordless vocalese was accompanied primarily by violin and percussion, supplemented sparingly by keyboards and electronics. Review | Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is both earthy and ethereal in Kennedy Center performance 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

Stirring orchestral music – with stabbing violins – plays through the trailer. “Steve Jobs,” portrait of the artist as tech guru: What we lose when we worship at the altar of commerce 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Morton's solo violin playing – his disarming habit of tugging at the underside of notes – was especially striking, and the Scottish Ensemble were intently animated as usual. Scottish Ensemble ? review 2010-12-17T22:45:00Z

A glittering Lunar New Year gala on Wednesday, conducted by Kahchun Wong, included the American premiere of a violin concerto by Tan Dun called “Fire Ritual.” Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The electrifying rendition — with frenetic violins, runaway flute solos and Simon snapping along like a jazzy protest poet — brought the house down in what was an unexpected highlight of the night. Reflective Paul Simon goes out on a high note, as farewell tour hits Seattle’s KeyArena 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

But even with one eye on the page, he never conducts this orchestra more effectively than with a violin tucked under his chin. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair 2010-06-07T21:20:00Z

A wrenching scene toward the end, depicting a concert at the camp, pits Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor, for solo violin, against an overpowering orchestral mass. Alex Ross: Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger,” at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

This motion picture event is made by discerning geeks for discerning geeks, you see, and is definitely not anything to do with Hollywood scallywags skilfully playing a demographic like a violin. Pacific Rim: forget the film, it's all about the trailers 2013-07-08T05:00:00Z

Leonard Bernstein, who was a classmate, composed a violin sonata for him in 1939. Raphael Hillyer, Founding Violist of Juilliard Quartet, Dies at 96 2011-01-05T23:52:01Z

The piece begins with the violin alone, playing a searching, quizzical melodic line. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z

Two standards of the violin repertoire were the main courses of this program, beginning with Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. Violinist Lana Trotovsek gives radiant performance in Embassy Series

Latifah purposely over-enunciated her lines, and when a pair of rehearsal actors claimed an Oscar onstage and gave an acceptance speech, Zeta-Jones started to play them off with an imaginary violin. Dozens of stars rehearse day before Oscar ceremony 2013-02-24T04:26:10Z

The Auschwitz violin and 17 others with connections to the vanished world of Europe's prewar Jewish communities are part of a new exhibit and performance series called "Violins of Hope." Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust 2012-04-13T20:05:11Z

He plays the entire Beethoven cycle — including the Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello — over the next three weeks. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Loops of plucked violin and layers of vocals add up to a statement of no-nonsense, matter-of-fact individualism from Brittney Parks, who records as the one-woman electronic band Sudan Archives. The 65 Best Songs of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

In his alluring “Varied Quintet,” for violin, harp, harpsichord and percussion, Harrison let bells ring the way bells like to ring in all their sonic complexity. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s because you’re the first man I’ve ever met, I love you,” she murmurs, as the violins swell and the couple head off to find spiritual renewal in a remote cabin. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z

Through them, I feel a connection to the era of the 1920s or even before, when violin playing was more creative than it is now. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

There are musical flourishes, including some lovely violin playing, as the plot escalates into a Dionysian frenzy in the woods. Theater Review: Julia May Jonas?s ?Evelyn,? at Bushwick Starr 2012-02-29T00:24:30Z

In the opening movement, the violins dispatched the main theme — a jabbing phrase of four sustained whole notes that breaks into restless flourishes — with incisive attack and somber intensity. Music Review: At Mostly Mozart, Osmo Vanska and Antti Siirala 2010-08-15T22:23:00Z

When the work was done, the driver backed out of her parking space in an unexpectedly sharp arc, clipping an end of the violin case! Beady eye 2011-03-03T11:33:18Z

Entering through Columbus Circle, dreamy violins faded in as I strolled across the Meadow, rising until we hit the Mall, where the soundtrack turned into whispering voices and eerie percussion. T Magazine: For iPhones, a Central Park Soundtrack 2011-10-24T20:37:38Z

There's no sense of confrontation between soloist and orchestra, or of the orchestra accompanying the violin. Feldman: Violin and Orchestra – review 2013-05-16T21:14:01Z

By the time I was in my teens in the 1980s and becoming serious about studying the violin, virtually every album of fiddle music I owned featured him. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

In most movies, the music serves to pinpoint emotional cues and amplify sentiments; when the violins swell the heart should swoon, and when the clarinets chirp it’s clearly time to chuckle. How a Red Hot Chili Pepper Gave Drive Its Pulse 2012-02-01T13:59:49Z

At age 14, Zukerman's talent on violin was discovered by Isaac Stern. Pinchas Zukerman plays viola spectacular with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2011-02-10T20:50:07Z

When two instruments intersected on a single note, he was not interested in smoothing it over, but in the slight dissonance of different timbres — a slightly strident flute, bisected by a shrill solo violin. Eschenbach and the NSO go almost modernist with Mahler 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

McGrath was born in Manchester but largely raised in the North West England city of Carlisle by her violin teacher mother and singer father. SSO's Emma McGrath: From Celtic folk to Bach 2012-01-13T03:49:03Z

Earlier in the evening, Bird and band offered a different brand of swinging affirmation, one that featured as its central instruments an amplified violin and a loop pedal. Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Russian triple threat Dmitry Sinkovsky — a violin virtuoso who also conducts and sings countertenor — played an impressive Baroque program with the Seattle Symphony that only included a few rocky moments. Ponytail with passion: violinist, conductor and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky plays Benaroya Hall 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

In the last movement of George Antheil’s mechanistic First Violin Sonata, the pianist and violinist Andrew Tholl gave the impression of a violin trapped in the gears of a haunted, manic player piano. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

While growing up in the Los Angeles area, Rutter studied piano and violin. New Kennedy Center leader Deborah Rutter blazed trail in Seattle 2013-12-12T19:31:25Z

“My father often wondered about your violin,” she says he told her. Her 300-year-old instrument was in perfect condition. Had it been interred? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

For the next seven years, the violin was his balm, redirecting his energy and sharpening his focus. Vilified for Virus, Bats Are a New Album’s Seductive Stars 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

In their take on the Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Orchestra, double-stop writing in the solo violin part suggests some of Kapustin’s affection for American country music. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

The musicians, on violin, guitar and vocals, are higher caliber, though frequently diminished by poor sound design. Review: ‘Lorca Madly in Love’ Portrays a Forbidden Romance Through Flamenco 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Joy Williams, from the Civil Wars, brought out the theological odyssey of “The Sound of Silence” with a meticulous arrangement that moved from a violin drone to folk-rock to stark a cappella harmonies. Music Review: Tuneful Paul Simon Tribute Bridges Decades 2014-04-01T22:19:25Z

The range of works that survive today — 24 symphonies, a dozen concertos, the same number of violin sonatas, six published harpsichord sonatas, music for church services — suggests he was no compositional slouch. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

With a clear and sturdy violin attack, and an inventive voice as an improviser, Ms. Omura is a rising talent worth watching. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Pantastico excelled in the concerto’s outer movements, where the upward sweep of a leg or the downward tap of a toe showed her uncannily at one with Michael Jinsoo Lim’s solo violin. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Some of the album uses straightforward ensembles — drums and electric bass and horns, say — or stranger ones, with piano, violin, pedal-steel guitar and muted trombone. Review: Ran Blake’s ‘Ghost Tones’ Connects With George Russell 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

A Bach violin composition and the Christian hymn "How Great Thou Art" are also featured. 'Never Givin' Up' recites MLK's 'Letter' to call for justice 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

On Friday, you can hear it with Lera Auerbach’s new violin concerto, “NYx: Fractured Dreams”; on Saturday, it comes with Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Each sound — the plucking of a violin, the rapid keyboard, the frantic strings — is individually created, layered and combined with Pallett’s melodious voice. How to save the creative class: “Universal healthcare and no guns, basically” 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

In January, Unesco concluded that the Three Graces would play "second violin" to the huge development and the site would be "damaged beyond repair" if the plans went ahead. Unesco meets to discuss Liverpool's world heritage status 2012-06-20T13:54:39Z

In seventh grade she made a deal with her mother: if she were home-schooled, she would practice the violin four hours a day. Karen Tuttle, Violist and Teacher, Dies at 90 2010-12-25T04:40:31Z

The premiere was probably a wild ride for the performers, given the flamboyance of Bjarnason’s violin writing, the technical orchestral challenges and the acoustical obstacles of the Bowl. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

He grew up around the corner from the South Kilburn estate, in an apartment where his twin brother practiced violin for hours a day. With a Violent Debut, He Reveals a London That Is Rarely Seen 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

In an interview last month, the singer described a nomadic recording process that took him to London, Nashville, Maryland and Southeast Asia, among other locales — including one particularly unusual violin session in Cambodia. | Lo-Fang’s Globetrotting, Left-of-Center Pop 2014-02-14T21:31:13Z

An ambling Andante, this movement begins with a gentle, almost innocuous theme played by the violins, accompanied at first just by a functional bass line in the lower strings. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

While hundreds of known Stradivari violins are in circulation, only 10 of his violas are known to have survived, according to Sotheby’s research. A $45 Million Viola? The World's Newest Most-Expensive Instrument 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

He began violin lessons at 5; by the time he was 10, he had made his orchestral debut, playing Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Denver Symphony. Eugene Fodor, Violin Virtuoso, Dies at 60 2011-03-02T16:04:21Z

Mattea, whose mother plays violin in the orchestra, whose father is the Met’s head electrician and whose grandfather Joseph Volpe ran the company for years, was among them. Arts Groups Bet Big on Holiday Programming. Will Children Come? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Bartolo gets his laughs, but that's down to Bruno Praticò's own very Italian comic acting, and his vocal velocity – it makes a change to have the violins struggling to keep up with the singer. Il Barbiere di Siviglia ? review 2011-01-19T18:17:23Z

She was 13 and had only been playing the violin for a year when she was accepted at the boarding school in central Manchester. Frances Andrade: 'a force of creativity' 2013-02-08T16:21:53Z

And yet what Mr. Reynolds conjured with the help of his violin, an array of electronic equipment and, occasionally, a foot-pedal-operated drum, sounded very much like chamber music. Review: Todd Reynolds, Live and Recorded, at the Jewish Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

It segued into an ecstatic performance of that most ecstatic of sonatas, César Franck’s for violin and piano, heard here in Piccinini’s adroit transcription for her instrument. Pianist, flutist collaboration yields lyrical evening 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Though Karol Szymanowski's orchestral music, especially his two violin concertos, is established in the repertory, his smaller-scale instrumental and vocal works are less well known, at least outside his native Poland. Music picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:21:00Z

Eventually, the violin plays scratchy musings, as consoling strings cushion the soloist with mysterious harmonies. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

It's in the music's precise layering of piano, violin and oboe that Zeffira's classical background is felt. Rachel Zeffira: The Deserters – review 2013-01-03T22:15:01Z

Laurie Anderson endures as the poster child for performance art, although the wry sprite with spiky hair and an electric violin prefers the term “multimedia artist.” Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos, who won the Sibelius violin competition as a teenager in 1985, joins the orchestra for Sibelius's Violin Concerto on 11 February at the Barbican. Rattle returns for London residency 2013-12-05T15:42:44Z

An insurance company has offered a 15,000 pound reward for information that could lead to the violin's recovery. 3 arrested in UK for stealing Stradivarius violin 2010-12-23T20:25:45Z

Yes, that’s “Tchaikfest!” as in a Tchaikovsky festival of four concertos, three for piano and one for violin, taking place over two concerts. Beat the winter blahs with 2 nights of Tchaikovsky, at SSO 2014-01-09T21:08:07Z

Biber composed a large catalog of instrumental and vocal music, but is largely remembered for his violin sonatas. Music Review: Daniel S. Lee Plays ‘The Crucifixion’ for Tenet’s TENEbrae 2014-03-24T22:40:14Z

The three women who play violins are very important too, for our balance, our look and our sound. Chic: 'Everybody needs a little Friday night' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-07-24T14:00:14Z

Its style changes constantly: the vocal writing is often angular and tense, occasionally lyrical and sometimes spoken, and the instrumental scoring — for violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet and harp — mirrors, punctuates and comments on it. Music Review: Signal, a New-Music Orchestra, Plays at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-05-28T21:45:00Z

A later violin, made of sheet metal, transmitted sound from a pickup under each string to an electronic work station, where a collaborator could transform the music emanating from the violin. Max Mathews, Pioneer in Making Computer Music, Dies at 84 2011-04-23T23:56:38Z

All his movements and gestures seemed to answer or anticipate the music’s beats and silences, which formed a constantly shifting grid through the interaction of guitar, bass, piano, violin and the boxlike cajón. Music Review: Diego el Cigala at Town Hall - Review 2011-11-03T00:01:26Z

But if his period-instrument adventures won him considerable attention, Mr. Luca also remained a passionate performer of Romantic and contemporary works, played on a modern violin. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z

Three of them were for viola d’amore, a member of the viol family that was largely superseded in the classical period by the violin and its relatives. At Seattle Baroque Orchestra, virtuosity of a collegial kind 2014-01-19T18:23:06Z

The NSO followed Elder with a will, with golden solos from violin and viola and flute bubbling like fountains up from the deep well of sound. Review | Elder, NSO put ‘worth’ in Butterworth 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Dmitry Sinkovsky, a musical phenomenon who plays virtuoso violin, sings as a countertenor and conducts, visits the Seattle Symphony throughout this season for a collaborative project anchored around the music of Antonio Vivaldi. Dmitry Sinkovsky plays violin, sings and conducts as part of Vivaldi project at Seattle Symphony 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

It brought up the question of whether a venerable violin is the best choice in every situation. Music Review: Daniel Hope and Karen Gomyo, Violinists, at Met Museum 2012-12-25T22:09:24Z

The orchestra was better engaged in a spellbinding account of Berg's violin concerto, in which Tai Murray proved an undemonstrative but effective soloist. National Youth Orchestra/Kristjan J?rvi ? review 2011-01-06T21:44:01Z

Some music is made for violin and unimaginable for trumpet. Video Game Review: Tearaway Is Designed for the PlayStation Vita 2013-12-16T23:11:11Z

The recipient of the violin bears the cost of insuring the instrument. A Stolen Stradivarius Is Recovered, and Lent to a Student 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

In “Drift Multiply,” 50 violins interact with 50 loudspeakers connected to as many custom-built circuit boards that channel the sound into one-bit audio. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

The news release billed her as "violin superstar," but Julia Fischer is something much rarer and more impressive than that frivolous category suggests. Violinist Julia Fischer puts stunning power on display at Benaroya 2012-02-21T18:10:05Z

You might say that, having awoken, the violin has grown. Her 300-year-old instrument was in perfect condition. Had it been interred? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Harp and harpsichord had Baroque-era tunings and provided extra perfume to his most delicious melodies, such as the one for violin sensuously played by Shalini Vijayan in a movement honoring Fragonard. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert will also conduct two other commissioned scores by Americans: “Time Machine” for violin and orchestra by Sebastian Currier, with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist; and “a Voice, a Messenger” by Aaron Jay Kernis. Music: Philharmonic in Red, White and Blue? Not Quite Yet 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z

After a stint in the Compulsive Gamblers, a Memphis band that included violin and saxophone, Cartwright and Yarber “actively tried to escape that sound and do something a little more abrasive and groove-oriented” in Oblivians. Oblivians return, chaos follows 2013-07-03T14:57:00Z

At 18 and 19, Menuhin was the first to record Bach’s complete solo violin sonatas and partitas, not then well known. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

A court violinist and concertmaster in Salzburg, Austria, he composed five violin concertos in his youth. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z

A violin by a balcony with a view of sky. Finding Solace in Henri Matisse’s Nice 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

He is playing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and his sonatas for violin and keyboard, a Brahms chamber concert and the violin concertos of Berg, Beethoven and Dvorak. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

What happens when one of the world's best-known violinists plays one of the world's best-known violin concertos? Review: In Itzhak Perlman's hands, Mendelssohn steals the show 2011-01-31T22:00:07Z

Like his fellow Finn Sibelius, Hakola took up the violin at an early age and draws inspiration from the natural world – he describes the soloist as "like an eagle soaring over a beautiful landscape". BBC Philharmonic/Storgards/Hardenberger – review 2013-02-03T16:54:28Z

She was using it not to draw attention to herself, but to build a narrative she sustained through the whole piece, of the violin and piano playfully splashing around in a pool together. Review: The Radiant Modesty of Janine Jansen at Carnegie Hall 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Alone in her tiny room, she takes out the violin her father gave her as a gift for her husband, Dante. ‘The Gods of Tango’: A gender-bending tale of music and love 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Reworked by the composer for violin at the suggestion of famed violinist David Oistrakh, the sonata also is an effective vehicle for the violin — this time performed by Jesse Mills, with pianist Andrew Armstrong. SCMS fest, night 2: Jazzy Martinu, eloquent Tchaikovsky 2013-07-02T16:06:06Z

“That’s your raw material really. At the same time it’s unbelievably difficult, and it’s like playing first violin in the Philharmonic; if you haven’t done the 10,000 hours, it’s not going to happen.” He Knows His Way Around a Half-Butt (That’s Snooker Talk) 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

With occasional rhythmic and harmonic quirks that portend a break from classical expectations, the piece is not a violin solo with two accompanying instruments, although that is sometimes how it sounded here. Kennedy Center Chamber Players master a challenging program 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

A single voice sang each choral part when there was no violin doubling, producing lithe, transparent textures instead of a weighty sound. Music in Review: Music in Review: Trinity Choir 2012-11-11T23:11:04Z

The cello sat between the legs, and the violin required rigorous slicing movements; the piano was considered far more ladylike. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

In the first movement, which begins with a melancholic solo theme for violin, Mr. Waarts tapped into tensions within the Neo-Classical veneer of Prokofiev’s music. Review: 56 Years Presenting the Best of Young Artists 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Then he went back to the studio for a transcribed version of the six cello suites, whose instrument-specific idiosyncrasies seem antithetical to the violin. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

I play what Vivaldi wrote, except for an occasional adaptation, like in the second movement, "Autumn," where the violin plays long notes in unison with the whole section. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The collection begins with a demonstrative recording of Berg's modern violin concerto, and it moves into a lyrically bopping take on Stravinsky's. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Her fellow singing violinist, Eden MacAdam-Somer, brought astonishing virtuosity and raw expression to three “Rumi Songs” that drew on classical and bluegrass violin traditions as well as a wide range of vocal techniques. Music Review: Carla Kihlstedt at the New York Festival of Song 2012-11-17T00:26:28Z

“From the get-go, I was thinking about two flutes, two violins, two cellos, two keyboards and two drums, which turned into three drums,” Mr. Mazurek said of the new album. Rob Mazurek’s Intergalactic Jazz Aims for a New Dimension 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

There were engaging, fresh works by five composers, including a premiere, David Shohl’s “Silhouette” for violin and piano. Music Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2013-05-31T22:04:08Z

Ms. Beglarian’s “I’m worried now, but I won’t be worried long” is more assertive: its violin line begins with outgoing bursts and becomes increasingly contrapuntal, thanks to a touch of digital delay. Music Review: Violinists, Plugged in, Bow, Pluck and Twang 2011-05-27T22:16:21Z

One of the pieces, "Twilight," is for two violins, and Kopatchinskaja joins Kremer in music of sad yet ethereal beauty that fills the room with radiance. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shows her astonishing artistry on 'Take Two' and 'Chiaroscuro' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

He brought folk to a new audience and notched up a top 10 album with Poor Man's Heaven, thanks to his technique of mixing stomping, attacking ballads with impressive violin work and furious strumming backing. Seth Lakeman: Hearts and Minds 2010-06-24T21:35:00Z

He ended the first half of the program with his own piece “mar’eh,” a violin concerto that glides on gossamer wings for an unbroken 22 minutes, never touching land. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

The first, "Hermit Fiddler," features an ethereal violin solo that anticipates by a year Vaughan Williams' popular and similar sounding 1914 "The Lark Ascending." Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Their runs and riffs propelled the soloists to a peak where violin and cello traded emphatic statements before agreeing on a joyous ending. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

There is all the usual stuff about his ability to induce the violin to speak with immediacy; you almost feel as though he is communicating through telepathy. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fleezanis, a “rebel with a violin,” as The Pioneer Press of St. Paul called her, sought to change that from early in her career. Jorja Fleezanis, Violinist and Pioneering Concertmaster, Dies at 70 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

He and his writers craft political commentary the way Stradivarius made violins. Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z

The sardonic march of the Second is trademark Shostakovich, who alludes to Stravinsky in the violin solo of the Fifth Fragment. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z

The foundation’s continued description of the Guarneri violin as “an instrument of understanding” on its website is “particularly inappropriate,” the panel said, given its refusal to pay the heirs. Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic retreats this weekend into a program out of the 1950s: the overture to “Die Fledermaus,” Mozart’s “Turkish” violin concerto and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching ‘Salome’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Growing up in Maryland, he began playing music when he was 5, studying classical music and learning six instruments: violin, cello, upright bass, piano, guitar and mandolin. | Lo-Fang: Lo-Fang Embraces His New Success 2014-02-20T16:20:22Z

Museums, musicals and violin lessons aren’t usually top of mind for donors in times of crisis, when so many other pressing needs crowd the landscape. Perspective | MacKenzie Scott’s multimillion-dollar message: Art is essential everywhere, not just in museums and theaters 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Her six-member instrumental ensemble, ardently conducted by Samuel McCoy, uses violin, viola and flute because they are suitable for both Western and Indian uses. With 'Thumbprint,' witness an opera's power to empower women 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

But we can go much higher, right into violin ranges. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z

Sitkovetsky harks back to an older tradition of violin playing not often heard these days. Sitkovetsky, Qian show their talent and enthusiasm at Phillips 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Rumor spreads that the villa — which once belonged to the violin’s original owner — has again become the temple of pagan rites and unspeakable vice. Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Her score was built on small musical motifs, some, like the exotically spiced opening motif in the violin, deeply expressive. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Here is my biography. I played the violin at 3 and gave my first concert at 7. I have been playing ever since.” Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Most of the European priests who worked at the missions were educated in the Germanic and Italian traditions, typically scoring their works for three-part chorus, solo voices, two violins and continuo. Music Review: ‘Bolivian Baroque’ at Columbia University 2013-05-03T23:19:01Z

“Stolen violins are impossible to sell,” he said. Violin Worth $200,000 Is Sold to Pawnshop for $50. The Catch? It Was Stolen. 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

"Brahms' rendition is closer to the original violin version. He almost doesn't add anything to the original score." Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

That same year I decided to stop taking violin. Her first job out of college: the lead in 'West Side Story' at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Handel had learned about composing for the violin from Corelli, and used to send botanical specimens to Telemann. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z

They handled instruments like found objects: a violin propped against a hip, a cello tilted at a rakish angle. At GlobalFest, a World of Music, Costumes and Messages 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

While Twombly shuffles through a future Los Angeles, passing time with advanced video games and handless computers, Butler and Pallett follow along with archaic instruments like the piano or violin. The Music from Her Aims Big and Scores 2014-02-28T22:34:06Z

Of the newly engineered Suite for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, Ms. Lamon said that the solo part seemed more idiomatic to the violin; the lower key, more “user-friendly” to the orchestra. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z

Biondi placed three late violin concertos in the environment of the kind of music that was common in mid-18th century Vienna, which was on the cusp of becoming the center of the music world. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

An internationally praised violin soloist, Sinkovsky will play that instrument in “The Four Seasons,” the perennial Vivaldi favorite. Dmitry Sinkovsky plays violin, sings and conducts as part of Vivaldi project at Seattle Symphony 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

"It's the same thing with violinists. You need a great violin to match your skill." Mandell Collection matches gifted musicians with vintage instruments 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

When the violins and cellos enter, those instruments at first also play high, scratchy sounds. Review: With ‘Tao,’ Philharmonic Dives Deeper Into Andriessen 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

As a violin teacher, I'd never thought at the end of a lesson that I might not see a student again. Beverly Hills teacher finds violin and Vivaldi in a time of war 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

The deep, milky gongs of Lou Harrison’s American gamelan slowly chime as a violin soars among and above in tender elegy, singing just for you. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

One of my uncles, Yehudi’s age, was a violin prodigy who drowned in a swimming accident in his early teens. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

In “20th Century Violin Concertos,” the latest thematic addition to this company’s winter season, the violin is highlighted as such a muse. Dance Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:51:52Z

The new solo show by veteran performance artist Laurie Anderson opens with note-bending sea surges of sound from her electronically enhanced violin and keyboard sampler. Laurie Anderson's 'Dirtday!' digressed, but the audience dug it 2012-10-21T20:12:04Z

Among its tracks is an instrumental version of the traditional spiritual “City Called Heaven,” with a stark, commanding prelude on solo violin. John Blake Jr., Versatile Jazz Violinist, Dies at 67 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

It seems simple enough — the violin strums, like a guitar, as the piano adopts the searching main theme — and most duos play it simply, as a basic question of foreground and background. Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Also performed were works by Liszt, Sibelius and Paganini, the latter featuring local violin soloist Benjamin Schmid. TV highlights: 08/07/2011 2011-07-07T20:59:01Z

The oscillating buzz of piano and celesta in the “Chant d’Amour II” section seemed to cast a blur over a lush melody in the violins. Review: Jaap van Zweden Returns to a Changed Philharmonic 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

The violin, in a cagey move, takes hold of bits of babble, as if to say, “Let me try to untangle these musical accusations for you.” Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Chen played the rest of the first movement on Geller’s violin, before receiving his repaired instrument — a Stradivarius — back, and playing the rest of the concerto on his own violin. Watch what happens when star soloist Ray Chen’s violin string breaks while performing with Seattle Symphony 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

The violin is consumed with cosmic harmonics, while the clarinet fixates on haunting two-note figures. Review: The Composers Concert, With David Hertzberg and Other Young Masters 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

“It was a violin that I played at my recitals. So I know for sure that Suzuki was under his guidance.” Mark O’Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

“This is just one more unbelievable chapter in that violin’s life,” said Frank Almond, the concertmaster. Stolen Stradivarius violin recovered in Milwaukee attic 2014-02-07T04:32:23Z

In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution At this summer’s classical music concerts, you could of course find a healthy array of violins, trumpets and cellos. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z

While he doesn't recall when he saw his first violin, Ehnes says that by the age of four his heart was set on the instrument. James Ehnes, happy at helm of Seattle Chamber Music Society, preserves his 17-year summer tradition 2012-06-27T22:18:03Z

Potential confusion will be offset by the fact that “The Four Seasons” and “Buenos Aires” are a series of concertos for solo violin and chamber orchestra, and different soloists will handle each one. Send 2016 on its way with ‘Four Seasons,’ Seattle Symphony and 2 tango dancers 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

The exception was the trio sonata, for which Bach stipulated flute, violin and continuo, the first instrument a homage to Frederick, a flautist. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman 2010-04-26T22:00:00Z

The piece is to include ad lib sections for solo clarinet, violin, cello and trumpet; musicians improvising these sections were selected on the basis of worldwide video auditions. Harris Theater throws visionary namesake a gala birthday bash 2011-03-08T15:37:00Z

Made to music for piano and violin by Lou Harrison, its uncanny force comes from the way the tribal meets the neurological. Dance Review: An Evening Revisits Mark Morris Hits (Along With a Few of Chopin?s) 2010-09-26T22:13:00Z

Each child in the family studied an instrument, and Lamar focused on the violin, although he also studied viola, clarinet, flute and saxophone — instruments assigned to his siblings. K. Lamar Alsop, Violinist and Ballet Concertmaster, Dies at 85 2014-02-09T02:47:28Z

There's nothing didactic here — just brilliant vocals, thought-provoking narratives, hypnotic violins and the most finely attuned poetic sensibility in rock. A summer soundtrack: Janelle Mon?e, The Hold Steady, The Roots and more 2010-08-04T21:56:00Z

“In principle, no one except someone who would use it — except for those who are collectors. And not all collectors are clever enough to realize that a violin needs to be used.” New System Allows Artists Seeking Instruments to Borrow, Not Beg 2014-04-25T22:05:51Z

It’s a simple title, but one that evokes the essential solitude that draws listeners and violinists to Bach’s solo works for violin. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The haunting high soprano harmony in “O Wisdom” is now taken by the violins. Dudamel leads a dark and satisfying dose of Mozart and Pärt 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

“This will be a deliberate process in consultation with all five of the Regional Suzuki Association violin committees as is the procedure for all of the instrument areas,” Lieb said in an email. Suzuki to replace disgraced violinist William Preucil on its teaching recordings 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

She studied violin before eventually settling on the cello. With every flick of her baton, conductor Susanna Mälkki chips at classical's glass ceiling 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

It happens most bewitchingly on “Machine,” a track driven and punctuated by Mr. Kotche’s meticulous drumming, alongside a plaintive, drifting violin and a gluey electronic undertow. Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

In “Duo” the piano and the violin play opposite each other and together in a conversation traversing the piece’s dramatic and ebullient terrain. Only Connect: Yearning for the Intimacy of a Danced, Onstage World 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

“But there’s something about the way the violin resonates that just kind of propels everything forward.” Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

“I think I’ve been in denial a little bit about how unusual my life is,” said Mr. Tao, who was also a violin prodigy. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

The light mood of the opening quickly segues into dark rumblings on viola and short, anxious phrases on the violin. Music Review: A Lutoslawski Tribute Includes ‘Bukoliki’ 2013-12-17T22:09:30Z

Their mother home-schooled the kids, taught Fowler to play the violin and instilled a voracious appetite for books. Her Blog Post About Uber Upended Big Tech. Now She’s Written a Memoir. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Speaking of the Chaconne as a gem of the violin repertory, Mr. Bell said that you would think no musician would dare “mess with perfection.” Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Benjamin Bowman was the violin soloist; Ormsby Wilkins conducted; the dancers acquitted themselves with skill and great good cheer. American Ballet Theater Opens its Fall Season 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

And the man of the house, holding his violin bow after an interrupted duet, leans over solicitously, and says: “I do apologize, Rinehart. The cat has never bitten anyone previously.” George Booth, New Yorker Cartoonist of Sublime Zaniness, Dies at 96 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Parks recently started working with a violin teacher to expand her technique. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Spread over so many players, the violins’ busy scales and joyful trills in the final Presto created a beehivelike burr humming with energy. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-28T00:08:27Z

And I said, ‘I can’t have my concertmaster be there too late. I don’t care how well you play the violin.’ After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

But in his early 20s he turned away from the violin. Violin star Gil Shaham to bring Mozart concerto to Seattle 2012-10-17T18:53:05Z

She was never as comfortable with her previous instruments, including two Stradivarius violins with impeccable pedigrees. Lisa Batiashvili on Violins, Ukraine and Valery Gergiev 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Charli, with her dancing, and Dixie, who studied violin and piano, were naturals at these casual pastiches. The D’Amelios Are Coming for All of Your Screens 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

In the final movement, “Escape, Flight, Sanctuary,” having been condemned, the heroine breaks free: Her escape comes across as an exploit of searing intensity, with the violin playing frenetic eruptions. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

These violin concertos – Britten wrote only one, Shostakovich two, the first of which is on this disc – date from the 1940s. Britten & Shostakovich – review 2013-06-08T23:05:25Z

It may feel as if the world doesn’t need yet another recording of Bach’s solo works for violin or cello. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Here, in an elegant recording, is a rare survey of the complete sonatas for two violins by Jean-Marie Leclair, sparkling with French refinement and spirit. Classical Playlist: Bang on a Can All-Stars, Meredith Monk, Kojiro Umezaki and More 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

It's like the guys playing the violin as they sink into the icy, dark ocean. "Life feels like an uncomfortable comedy": Zach Woods embraces the awkward and new movie "Downhill" 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

In duet, the viola’s sound nestles modestly inside the piano’s, with none of the aspirational flights and flashes of a violin or clarinet. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

The result, says Kennedy, is that "philosophical masterpieces end up sounding like shallow showpieces, designed merely to show off technical mastery of the violin". Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

A leg unfurling in développé to the side was like the velvety, yearning notes of the violin made visible. American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake,’ at the Met 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Rachel Podger’s solo violin recital at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in June had none of those qualities. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Specifically, he was up for best remixed recording, for his version of Max Richter’s violin composition “Berlin by Overnight,” performed by Daniel Hope on his album “Spheres.” The Remix Grammy: For the Art and Science of the Musical Cocktail 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

A Stradivarius violin with a wood-carved image of Joan of Arc was one of the prized possessions that made Ms. Clark, in her later years, a target for predators. Books Of the Times: ‘Empty Mansions,’ About the Heiress Huguette Clark 2013-09-04T21:26:20Z

His talent was soon recognised when he won a local violin competition. US violinist Ruggiero Ricci dies 2012-08-06T14:21:46Z

At the end of World War II, members of the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra began bringing their violins to Moshe Weinstein with this directive: Buy my violin or I will destroy it. Exhibit of 18 violins tells story of the Holocaust 2012-04-13T20:05:11Z

The first-movement Nocturne was the most strongly articulated by both soloist and orchestra, a soundscape of lunar strangeness that joined extremes of low brass moans and high filaments of violin. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z

Elsewhere — such as in “Der Neue Orpheus,” a cantata for soprano and violin soloists — Weill proved a master of balancing disparate voices, with a keen ear for precise orchestration. Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s all art to me,” Mr. Mazzucco said, standing by a portrait of Vildane, a model whose curves mirrored the violin attached to the print. Scene City: ?Culo by Mazzucco,? Photographs of Women, Is Unveiled - Scene City 2011-10-12T22:10:18Z

A few years after my violin was stolen, I began to be flooded by memories and realizations, so I began to write. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Prodigy Loses Her ‘Soul Mate’ — a Rare Violin 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

All the while, Kopatchinskaja seems to commune with her violin, speaking to it, cajoling and consoling it. Review | An exhilarating D.C. debut from violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, pianist Polina Leschenko 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Police will contact experts to confirm it is the stolen violin, Milwaukee Police Lt Jeffrey Norman told the Associated Press news agency. Stolen US Stradivarius 'recovered' 2014-02-06T14:49:01Z

Andreas Grossbauer, the chairman of the philharmonic and its first violin, said that was in part a nod to a generational change in the orchestra over the last decade. Forget the Ball Dropping in Times Square: Go to Vienna 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The players are plucked from bands all over the world: virtually all the first violins are leaders of their respective orchestras. Prom 26 World Orchestra for Peace/Gergiev 2010-08-06T11:01:00Z

There is a series of sounds and filters for violin, keyboard and voice, and they basically are responding to what you’re playing and saying. Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Here reconfigured fragments of Bach’s chaconne flit through the solo violin opening, sometimes promising to coalesce into fully formed passages, sometimes finding spaces of their own. Music Review: Gidon Kremer at White Light Festival at Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:15:05Z

To recreate it live, he is backed by two musicians he introduces only as "Aaron and Cameron", plus a laptop, keyboard and violin. How to Dress Well – review 2012-11-06T11:15:38Z

My son Billy started learning the violin when he was five, and I quickly realised we both wanted more than the driven, joyless world of grades, exams and auditions that seemed to lie inexorably ahead. Fiddler on the yoof ? My son the 12-year-old fiddle prodigy 2011-03-31T22:00:00Z

The piece was conceived as a homage to the D minor Partita by Bach, which Berio lauded as "the high point in which past, present and future violin technologies coexist". Alina Ibragimova/Quay Brothers ? review 2011-07-06T18:15:01Z

Of the clutch of new songs, there’s the gloriously funky-EDM “I Believe in Santa,” the trop-pop “Naughty List,” the sad violin ballad “Christmas Got Me Blue” and the gleeful “Christmas Party.” Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Sawing at his violin, he evokes a character that could be played by a young Buck Henry in a Christopher Guest film. Review: Tony Conrad, ‘Completely in the Present’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The violin, made in 1696, is one of about 400 made by Stradivarius that are still known to exist. ArtsBeat: Stradivarius Violin Is Stolen From London Snack Shop 2010-12-24T18:00:26Z

There's so much going on – the birth of the violin, the violin's big brothers, the orchestra, the piano, the concerto, the symphony, the modern 12-note-to-an-octave system of tuning. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z

Mr. Karn, who played violin and bassoon at the time, taught himself to play bass and quickly developed an unusual sound and style. Mick Karn, Bassist in the Group Japan, Dies at 52 2011-01-05T23:54:25Z

There’s a violin concerto and another very famous one for piano. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z

Yet while mariachi is a popular genre at its core, musicians and parishioners alike say its emotional interplay between trumpet, violin, guitar, vihuela and guitarrón is a natural complement to the holy rites of Mass. Silenced by COVID, mariachi Mass returns to Tucson cathedral 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

It immediately drew attention because it took charanga, a traditional Cuban style focused on violins and flute, and made it bold and brassy by substituting a pair of trombones for the strings. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z

I mixed the violin with electronic music and all the other textures. Sudan Archives Plays the Violin a Bit Differently 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

A Flock of Keyboards, Gathered in the Round When people refer to piano quartets or piano trios, they generally mean a piano and some other stuff — a violin and a cello, say. Music Review: Grand Band at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-08T20:53:33Z

They were thrilled to hear the violin reclaimed. Roman Totenberg’s stolen Stradivarius was once lost forever. Now, it plays again. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Vamping to give them some time, Solivan, who also plays violin, readies his mandolin. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

A virtuoso orchestra is demanded, and a virtuosic reading is what the audience heard, complete with a fine violin solo from David Taylor. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z

As concertmaster, or leader of the first violins, Mr. Preucil is second in importance and power only to the orchestra’s conductor. Cleveland Orchestra Suspends a Star After Accusation of Assault 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The organization recently launched a South King County violin/viola studio serving middle and high school students of color, and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, in Renton, Kent, Auburn, Maple Valley, and Federal Way. Classical KING FM takes steps to address issues of equity and inclusion 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

At a recent performance, the screechier moments of the violin were painful to the ears of more than one listener. ‘Doctor Caligari’: Off-balance to a fault 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Lisa Bielawa uses snippets of overheard conversation in “Breakfast in New York,” a melodic vocal quartet with an inviting, detailed violin accompaniment. Music Review: In ?Five Borough Songbook,? 20 Composers Show N.Y. - Review 2012-01-15T20:56:39Z

Pine says federal regulations and the airline's own policy specifically permit violins as carry-ons. American Airlines changes its tune and apologizes for barring a musician's rare violin in the cabin 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Wheeldon is similarly resourceful in his responses to Bernstein’s “Serenade after Plato: Symposium,” a violin concerto in five movements that slips between poetic lyricism and driving dynamic rhythm. Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

He is a shadowy figure stealing past the window – your window – or a skeleton in a dark cloak with an hourglass, perhaps even playing upon a bony violin. Death: A Self-Portrait – review 2012-11-11T00:05:30Z

Pappano and the LSO certainly played their part in the unremitting focus of the Shostakovich, the winds interweaving eloquently with the solo violin in its bleak reflections. LSO/Pappano – review 2013-05-19T16:30:01Z

Only the Schubert put the solo violin in the spotlight, and it was, though gorgeous, in ways less satisfying. A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

She was trained in German, mathematics, medicine and the violin; she read six modern languages and two ancient ones. ‘The Condition of Secrecy’ Teems With Love for Language and the Natural World 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

There is a lot of chorus work, stage bands, even an on-stage Erhu, a traditional Chinese violin – in total more than 90 participants and a dizzying schedule of costume changes. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z

Biber’s mystery sonatas and set of seven partitas all use scordatura, which requires each string on the violin to be tuned differently, producing a wide range of sonorities and colors. Music Review: Daniel S. Lee Plays ‘The Crucifixion’ for Tenet’s TENEbrae 2014-03-24T22:40:14Z

Benjamin Bowman, 41, is one of the orchestra’s two concertmasters — a leader of the first violin section who serves as a conduit between players and maestros. The Met Opera’s Musicians, Unpaid Since April, Are Struggling 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

The record is filled with booming electronic drums, bittersweet Carnatic violin melodies, hushed gospel choirs and swarms of feedback. Rafiq Bhatia Is Writing His Own Musical Language 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

That urgency surfaced in an intense violin solo that unfolded in a high range. | Washington Square Ensemble: Washington Square Ensemble Make Waves at Merkin Hall 2010-04-08T22:43:00Z

His 2018 collection of the violin sonatas and partitas was revelatory in its unpretentious lightness and dancing energy. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Then, while violins ascend to high, softly tender lines, in lower registers other strings begin stirring, as if to get this piece up and running. Review: Sphinx Virtuosi Bring an Intriguing Vision to Carnegie Hall 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

In particular the spotlight was focused on the harmonically inventive and technically demanding violin music of Biber. Music Review: Exploring the Intricacies of the 17th Century 2011-07-31T21:56:33Z

It's an elegiac movement recorded by a symphony orchestra that features desolate violins swelling around a barely there synthesizer pulse. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z

Although she took lessons in piano, violin, and guitar, she didn’t excel at any of them. The Troubadour and the Lady 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Bernstein’s sense of humor flashed through in the final movement where the violin executes a little nonchalant dance over a left-right accompaniment in the tuba. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-18T21:42:45Z

At Carnegie, the orchestra was powerful yet small, with no more than six double basses and 12 first violins before the Ninth. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Burglars entered the home and stole two wallets, two cameras and the violin made by Gagliano. Violin Worth $200,000 Is Sold to Pawnshop for $50. The Catch? It Was Stolen. 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

The board, perched on legs sculpted like a bull’s, is the size of a paperback and shaped in the manner of a violin. What We Learn from One of the World’s Oldest Board Games 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

The concertos for piano and violin are both extravagantly difficult — not only for the soloists, but also for the orchestra. Unsuk Chin Talks About Her Music and Influences 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The cast has three singers, who will be accompanied by a baroque violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z

Ms. Totenberg, the legal affairs correspondent for NPR news, said in an interview that she planned to report the discovery of her father’s stolen violin on Thursday morning on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” Roman Totenberg’s Stolen Stradivarius Is Found After 35 Years 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

At a recent rehearsal for “Prodigal,” he raised an arm, framing it around his face like a violin bow, and staggered forward on his knees. Anthony Huxley, the Anti-Jock of City Ballet 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z