When I was about to reach two years since I started playing the violin in my 40s, my violin teacher asked me, "Are you interested in trying to play in an orchestra?"Of course I wanted to join!! But in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...