From squeaky strings to stage-ready! In this video, I perform 5 levels of “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish – from total noob to ...

The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren't on? No ...

The prolific German composer Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) wrote some 450 works - "but many were published under her brother's name," said <a href=" Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) ...

For me it was a belief. It’s literally something dangerous and sensitive and lethal at the same time. If I feel that someone is treating music less than my expectations or my beliefs, I feel irritated ...

“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...

JB Violins is tucked into a small building off Alley 38, just south of West Bonita Avenue in Claremont. One might expect its location in Claremont is the result of the arts-friendly college culture of ...

While many people can discern the fundamental or dominant note ... the sheet music for a 1910 song on display in his store window: “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” James Brown carves a violin ...

Though encouraged to take formal lessons, he believed his music was a gift of Nature ... Even when I sleep, I feel as if I’m playing the notes in my head. It’s not just an instrument, it ...

The 18th annual Red Note New Music Festival returns to the Redbird campus at 8 p.m. Monday with a performance by core members of the Akropolis Reed Quintet. Organizers said this group is a ...