You may know them from their string covers of modern-day pop songs in Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” in the background of “Westworld ...
San Francisco's New Century Chamber Orchestra gave American violinist Simone Porter free rein to curate and conduct a unique ...
The 39-foot-long violin is made out of around 12 different kinds of wood. Photo by Stefano Mazzola / Awakening / Getty Images Last Saturday, a larger-than-life, violin-shaped vessel wound its way down ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic. By Joshua Barone ...
At Geoffrey J. Seitz, Violinmaker, the eponymous violin shop in Holly Hills, string instruments crowd every corner. This is no carefully curated showroom. It’s more like a teenager’s bedroom, ...
Since last summer, the Instagram account @violintorture has offered a riposte to the centuries-old craft of violin-making, or lutherie. “Can you still play a violin after cutting it up?” the account’s ...
Ever wonder what happens when an orchestral guest artist has an instrument malfunction? Those things do happen, you know. The most common glitch is for a string to break mid-performance. What’s the ...
The trademark gondolas of Venice's Grand Canal played second fiddle this weekend to a very unusual vessel: A giant violin carrying a live string quartet. "Noah's Violin" is the most recent creation of ...