In 2015, a delegation of city leaders from Columbus, Ohio, went to Italy's Genoa, where they heard a performance of the famed Paganini violin. The contingent spent the next four years working to ...

It’s a wooden instrument. But the violin known as “Il Cannone,” or “the cannon,” is not just any instrument. It’s a 276-year-old Italian national treasure, constructed in 1743.

A Stradivari owned by the first woman to play in the strings section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has sold for $1.2 million. Christie’s auction house said Friday that the 1700s violin ...

The violin rarely leaves its home in the Columbus sister city of Genoa, Italy. It is rarely played. In fact, the Mayor of Genoa says he has only heard it played twice before.

Jazz violinist Regina Carter has become the first non-classical musician to play "The Cannon," Niccolo Paganini's legendary Guarneri violin. It's stored in a vault in Genoa, Italy, where Carter ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — You may remember the buzz about the 276-year-old Paganini violin–valued at $35 million–making its way from Genoa, Italy to Columbus last May to be played by the Columbus ...

The opportunities that Columbus’ sister city relationship with the city of Genoa, Italy, has accorded us for more than 60 years are underscored by yet another successful week of exchanges.