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A dozen of the world’s finest violinists are locked in a fierce bow against bow battle to become the first-ever winner of the ...
Perfectionism - and a noisy mind - are conditions that seem to affect a lot of musicians, particularly violinists. So I'm not ...
Professional musician Alexandra Shatalova Prior guides readers through the nuances of some of the world’s best-known classical music. Each embedded video below offers a clip of the passage she ...
Mazing through the Old Town in Tallinn you’ll find an array of medieval churches, cobbled ginnels, and showpiece cathedrals.
Music is the most beautiful and powerful force I know in the world. It brings people together with positivity and love and ...
Japanese glassblowers have turned their chops to replicating the string instrument – so closely that they’ve created an extraordinary glass violin that can actually be played like the real thing.
The violin played as the Titanic ship sinks in the Hollywood film is expected to sell for £60,000 at auction. Amid the chaos of the sinking ship, a string quartet plays the hymn Nearer My God To Thee, ...
“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...
I don’t know about you and yours, but a big part of my cohort went into Big Ears 2025 with a lackadaisical attitude and a ...
Something Beautiful,' out May 30 ... hit "Flowers" and earned Cyrus her first Grammys more than a decade into her music career. By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast, THR.com The Grammy ...
“Ya’ll acting like this ain’t the most beautiful woman of all time,” West later exclaimed with Kardashian smiling and laughing beside him. “Wait a second! I’m talking about arguably of ...
Back in the 1880s, magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin used to stun his audiences with a trick he called “The Marvelous Orange Tree.” It was all very complicated, but, in the end, resulted in ...