Melodies were coming easily to Johannes Brahms when he wrote his Violin Concerto, so he planted a plethora of them throughout the piece. They pop up all over the orchestra, the soloist sometimes ...

Violinist Tedi Papavrami was born into a musical family in the Albanian capital, Tirana, in 1971. He was tutored by his father, a celebrated violin teacher. He was a willing pupil and became a child ...

Audiences love Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor for its warmth and frequent pyrotechnics. The concerto also features playful innovations that would have shocked—or delighted—the audience at ...

Surgeons do deep brain stimulation as violinist plays along -- literally. Mar. 18, 2010— -- Roger Frisch of Plymouth, Minn., lay on the operating table with his hands clutching his violin to his ...

Unsuk Chin taught herself harmony by accompanying hymns at her father's church in Seoul. When a school teacher introduced her to Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, he set her on a path that has bridged ...

Part four: The culmination of the early history of violin playing, 1700-1761. Introduction: the 'evolution of progress' theory, a summary view of the violin -- The violin and bow of the early ...