An expert on looted musical instruments is on the trail of a lost violin by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari dating back to ...

What's 300 years old, made of wood and easily outperforms most mutual funds? A Stradivarius violin. Or an antique guitar or mandolin, for that matter. A growing group of investors is viewing music—as ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

Many people have a story or two about how they started playing a musical instrument as children. For musicians from the many diaspora migrant communities all over the world, which instruments they are ...

This video of Laurent Bernadac, an engineer and lifelong musician, playing the violin looks and sounds very little like a person playing the violin. For one thing, he’s also using a looper and effects ...

The musical duo Black Violin's Brief But Spectacular take on defying stereotypes When Kev Marcus and Wil B met in a high school music class they shared their desire to disrupt people's impressions of ...

The Aiken Symphony brings its 11th season to a close with music by the Romantic masters, Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto and ...