Some of the most famous and recognizable tunes and compositions like Beethoven’s For Elise for example, beautiful as they are, do not require a virtuoso on any of the 7 hardest instruments to play.

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 ...

Audiences always seem delighted when an actor proves to be more than a one-trick pony. They're especially enchanted when a performer can act, sing, dance... and play a musical instrument. Or two. How ...

Camerata Chamber Orchestra is open by audition to all CWRU students, faculty, and community members who play string instruments and are interested in performing in a flexible yet high-level chamber ...

Stringed music lessons for adults and school-age students begin this month at First Presbyterian Church of Alma, 495 Charles Ave., Alma. Adult string lessons begin at 6:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, ...

Darlene Dawson spent 34 years teaching children how to play stringed instruments in her hometown of Manassas before she retired. Last summer, three years after she and her husband moved to Orange ...

When I asked my mother, in my 20s, if she was glad she'd had kids, she paused, uh oh, then said, "Yes, but I had to give up so much. (She was an editor.) Adults seem to put more emphasis on their kids ...

When opening a high school for the arts this fall, would the Hazleton Area School District also start teaching students to play stringed instruments? That request came from supervisors of Butler Twp., ...

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The long string instrument, which was created by Ellen Fullman, is 60 feet long and features 44 bronze strings stretched ...