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 ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This violin string was made by ...

A remarkable run of major monuments in the classical-Romantic violin repertoire began in L.A. a few weeks ago when Joshua Bell played Bruch’s First Concerto. It signaled the start of what amounts to a ...

Paul Chou places the violin under his chin, and soon the bow is flitting over the strings at the speed of dragonfly wings. A snatch of melody from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” emerges. Then, some ol’-time ...