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The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University has appointed David Chan as Professor of Violin, starting full time in the fall of 2025. Learn more about Chan here!
The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the Holocaust, is coming to the West Coast.
While a violin and a fiddle are structurally the same instrument, a fiddle is its own entity—one that's grounded in its ...
By Zachary Woolfe In classical ... “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 ...
Twenty years later, the Grammy-nominated classical ... of Film Music, April 24; That Arena Rock Show & Special Guests, April 25; Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bobby Rush, May 1; Black Violin, May ...
JB Violins is tucked into a small building off Alley 38, just south of West Bonita Avenue in Claremont. One might expect its location in Claremont is the result of the arts-friendly college culture of ...
There is a lot happening this month: Easter traditions, events for little ones, performances and returning music festivals. One of them is the newest edition of the Classical Music Festival ...
With a love of woodworking and musical arts ranging from classical ... sheet music for a 1910 song on display in his store window: “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” James Brown carves a violin ...
I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds ...
The groom was an avid violin player ... from a fan of classical Chinese poetry to translate several poems and set them to original tunes. Some clients are content with sheet music, but others ...