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“This is complete madness,” the maestro tells the orchestra. He glances to the soloist, the world-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine, then says simply, “Let’s go.” You wouldn’t know from the title on ...

Pine has become an ambassador for the classics to her generation, regularly appearing on rock stations, dragging in her Stradivarius to play heavy metal covers with the classics thrown in. Right now, ...

Earl Maneein, a violinist featured on the Dillinger Escape Plan's Dissociation, premiered his heavy metal violin concerto Dependent Arising this past weekend in Phoenix, AZ. The unique ...

One minute into this Neurosis riff-chugging song, SubRosa's secret weapon appears: the violins of Sarah Pendleton and Kim Pack. This duo has always provided a worthy foil to guitarist and vocalist ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Violins of Hope is a music program with a message of tolerance. Many of the instruments were owned by Jewish musicians before and during World War II - many of the songs ...

Ole Dahl handcrafted violins in the late-1930s, though he set aside his instrument-making and focused on weapons once the Nazis invaded his native Denmark. Joining a Danish Resistance group that ...