Chicago magazine

String Theory and the Science of the Violin

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 ...
PBS

The Violin in the String Family of the Orchestra

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 ...
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On a String: Violin Maker Geoffrey Seitz

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, ...
The Irish Times

String of violins valued in Dublin charity event

DOZENS OF violinists descended on the National Concert Hall in Dublin yesterday to have their instruments, each with their own unique history and story to tell, valued by a member of one of the ...
Seattle Times

Watch what happens when star soloist Ray Chen’s violin string breaks while performing with Seattle Symphony

What do you do when you’re performing a stirring violin solo before a concert crowd, and a string on your instrument suddenly breaks? That’s what happened with violinist Ray Chen, performing Thursday ...
The New York Times

Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic. By Joshua Barone ...