Last year Elizabeth Pitcairn brought her famous red Stradivarius violin to Symphony Hall for a thoroughly successful concert with the Allentown Symphony which included John Corigliano’s Chaconne for ...

Howard Needham is standing in a room deep in the bowels of Catholic University's Ward Hall, listening to Samantha Cody play violin. "The wolf notes are gone," he says to Emil Chudnovsky, a CU music ...

An accurate history of how the violin has evolved from 400,000 BC to 2077 AD. Check out "Learning the Violin" on Buttered ...

During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances — ...

Note: This episode originally aired in May, 2014. Violins and violas are like living, breathing things. Many are hand-crafted with wood from a tree. Each one is different. And you know the ...

Artists and musicians often take the first hit when the economy takes a turn for the worse. Host Michel Martin speaks with writer Amanda Abrams about one violin maker's struggle to make ends meet in ...