In the bustling cultural landscape of modern Atlanta, where the digital age often dictates the pace of entertainment, a ...

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 ...

When Bob Dylan sang that "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying" on his epochal 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home," he could have been talking about the precarious dynamic that either keeps a ...

A national fiddle champion at age 14, Seattle’s Mark O’Connor has maintained a frenetic pace as a composer and performer: a Nashville sessionman who played on more than 450 recordings during the 1980s ...

Darol Anger grips his bow loosely, wrist bent, and smacks it against the strings of his fiddle. The resulting sound, a small crunch, is like the crackle of a very tiny drum. “You can get some nice ...

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, ...