The 10 worst things about being a viola player Japan has a new viola-playing Emperor, and Donald Trump just gave him a viola Musicians’ Hierarchy of Needs graphs This violist just started plain ...

Roberto Díaz performed at the Library of Congress with the $30 million Tuscan-Medici viola, crafted by Stradivari in 1690. The instrument, now permanently gifted to the library, is renowned for ...

Kass says he knows of no musical instrument that has sold for as much as $30 million. The highest price paid for a violin at auction was $15.9 million for the “Lady Blunt” Stradivarius, in 2011.

A musician has completed a 10-week cycling tour of Great Britain with her beloved viola de gamba strapped to the back. Sarah ...

Banned by the Nazi's as "degenerate music", it was reworked into his purely instrumental Fourth Symphony in 1946-47, building a broad arch from pensive introspection to savage tumult.

Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford holds the historic Tuscan-Medici viola by Antonio Stradivari onstage before a performance by Roberto Diaz at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, May 14 ...