The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax ...

It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...

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I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...

I started playing violin in 2008. I was 56 years old. My wife and I were on a weekend trip to New York. We had just seen some downtown theater and were making our way back to our hotel. On a mostly ...

Frank Polidora always loved violin music, but he never had time to learn the instrument when he was a practicing physician. Jim Depristo was a musician all of his life, but never learned to play the ...

Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

Following the recent conclusion of “Do You Like Brahms?”, Park Eun Bin sat down for an interview with Vogue magazine! The actress spoke about her experience personally playing the violin for her role ...

Actress Sakina Jaffrey, a Nyack resident, is understandably proud of her father, Sanford Allen, who, at age 23, became the first full-time African-American musician to join the New York Philharmonic.