ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For the first time in history, an astronaut played a violin up in space. Sarah Gillis played her violin onboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon earlier this month. It was a historic ...

[Martin], of the YouTube channel [WinterGatan], recently uploaded a video tour of the Phonoliszt Violina, an orchestrion, or a machine that plays music that sounds as though an orchestra is playing.

The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax More summer essentials I knew the violin was an unforgiving instrument but I had always ...

Dagmar Turner, who plays with the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra, had a brain tumor removed in her right frontal lobe Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been ...

We often marvel at prodigies who mastered the art of both violin and piano playing at a young age (e.g., German violin soloist and concert pianist Julia Fischer). Speaking from an ordinary person’s ...