While KQED was selling wrinkle cream to its aging audience two weeks ago, many other PBS affiliates were reveling in horsehair. The delayed "Great Performances" show "The Art of Violin" finally ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

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, ...

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 ...

You may know them from their string covers of modern-day pop songs in Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” in the background of “Westworld ...

Mathew M. Symons was interested in violins from a young age, but growing up in Henry County with Quaker parents it wasn't always easy to explore his passion. The first instrument he created – out of a ...

In a season with some of the best opera offerings in recent years, the Aspen Music Festival topped things off Tuesday with the “arena” version of Puccini’s evergreen “La bohème.” The 2,000-seat Klein ...

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 ...