Israel by survivor, later restored by Tzachi Beck, who left it unplayed for years before delivering it to ex-captive: 'I knew ...

The viola is the middle voice of the string family. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin. Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

His grandparents were the only ones in their family to leave Europe before it ... had been transported to concentration camps. The first violin came to the Weinsteins covered in ashes, which ...

The most illustrious of several violin makers in the Bergonzi family was Carlo, born in Cremona, Italy, in 1683 (d. 1747). His training is not documented, but his early instruments show the influence ...

Drago’s grandfather, Sergey Palchikoff, was born in Russia in 1893 to a family of nobility. At the age of four, Palchikoff started learning to play a violin that, unbeknownst to him, would ...

Modern acoustics is making it possible to account for the exquisite performance of the violins made by the Italian masters. The result promise a further evolution in the instruments of the violin ...

An Elkhorn family thinks the music program in their school system lacks one major element. Elkhorn sixth grader Luca ...