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

The 'golden period' violin is currently played by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster Ludvig Gudim ...

In the 1970s Morton Feldman composed a collection of pieces for one or more performers with orchestra to which he gave purely descriptive titles. The series of single-movement works began with Chorus ...

The Fargo Moorhead Symphony Orchestra opens their 95th season with a performance of "Violin Concerto" by by Samuel Barber, ...

Max Bruch resented that his First Violin Concerto (of three) achieved widespread fame while the rest of his output was largely neglected. But with its brooding melodies, unusual form, and joyous ...

Khachaturian's popularity has dipped of late, probably because we think of him, post-glasnost, as one of Soviet music's "yes-men". Such a view is simplistic, given that he had a major brush with the ...

Her breathless, emotionally expressive performance was the centerpiece of the opening concert of Music Director José Luis Gomez’s 10th season in Tucson. For those 30 plus-minutes, Olmeda invited us to ...

Hilary Day started playing the violin when she was 10 years old. Her mother was a professional violist and now, years later ...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA)- Have you ever wanted to get your kid into music? If the answer is ‘yes’, here’s your chance to do it for free! The Florida Orchestra (TFO) has partnered with the ...

Deslippe won her position in the first violin section of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra while in her mid-twenties in 1983.

Morton Feldman's 1979 Violin and Orchestra is altogether too introverted to be thought of as a concerto. The music's world is one of micro-gestures. The violin scrabbles or strains quietly, the ...