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There’s at least one encore left for a $650,000 violin stolen from the University of Southern California this month and thought to have been lost forever. Los Angeles Police Department ...
A flight attendant has been filmed playing the violin to a group of recently-landed passengers in San Francisco. In a video posted on a United Airlines subReddit, the smartly-dressed attendant ...
The violin played in Hollywood blockbuster Titanic when the ship was sinking is set to sell for up to £60,000 at auction in Wiltshire. The instrument, which can be seen multiple times in the 1997 film ...
The body of the glass violin was meticulously shaped using traditional hand-blown glass techniques. Typically, hand-blown glass is formed into simple spherical shapes, making it extremely challenging ...
Yang delivered a heartfelt rendition of Sam Cooke’s classic ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’, accompanying himself with a rhythmic violin part. As the orchestra watched in admiration, Yang brought the 1960s ...
Take Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, which endears us with its graceful lyricism and good spirits. Not when Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays it. Kopatchinskaja, who makes her New York ...
But, doubling as a violin soloist in works opening both halves of Thursday’s concert, he’s obviously kept bow arm and left hand in fine fettle. Also featured as soloist was the DSO’s ...
To the editor: The meeting of Nathaniel Ayers and Steve Lopez is one of my all-time favorite L.A. stories (“20 years and counting: How a chance encounter with a street musician led to a lasting ...
In addition to the longtime musician’s instruments, Kolstein Music in Baldwin and its owner, Manny Alvarez, allegedly took on consignment a Mateo Goffriller bass violin worth $255,000 from a ...
Vladimir Putin was playing him like a cheap violin. Trump, seemingly mesmerised by the Russian leader, gave his friend everything he wanted: dominance in Ukraine, aside from a carve-out for US ...