Violin is often called the most human of instruments, soft, soulful, and achingly intimate. It’s also one of the most demanding — an art that can take years, even decades, to master.

In this episode of Cult, we go behind the scenes at the first Classic Violin Olympus in Dubai, where world-class performers competed for top prizes and a handcrafted violin. The inaugural Classic ...

He hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances. Musical instruments were crafted, present and found in concentration camps across Central and Eastern Europe during World ...

Jonathan Evans-Jones played band leader Wallace Hartley in the 1997 film A violin played by the band leader of the Titanic as it sank in the 1997 Hollywood film has been sold for £54,000 at a ...

In the sprawling landscape of contemporary music, where genre boundaries increasingly blur into irrelevance, Black Violin emerges as something genuinely exceptional—a classical-meets-hip-hop ...

A tour de force. It’s hard to think of a better description of “The Violin Maker,” from International City Theatre, making its American debut at the Beverly O’Neill Theater in downtown ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — This week, the Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island will host a concert by violin and accordion duo On Tuesday, Karolina Mikołajczyk and Iwo Jedynecki will perform ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KABC) -- Violin teacher Constance Meyer of Beverly Hills had a nagging cough for nearly two years. But a parent of one of her students thought it was something more serious.

A violin from a Nazi concentration camp nearly went unnoticed for over eight decades, then a secret note changed everything. In 1941, while imprisoned at Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish ...

Black Violin members Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus met on the first day of orchestra class in 1996 at Dillard High School of the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. Classically trained by day ...

“Dachau. Anno 1941, Franciszek Kempa.” Recommended Videos The origins of the violin, built in 1941 by Franciszek “Franz” Kempa while imprisoned by the Nazis at Dachau in southern ...