"I just set out to write this musical about Einstein," says Dr Wingfield, 63, a composer and director of studies in music at ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip ...

Black Violin is the modern incarnation of that simple, but constant, drive to perform. “It’s hard to come from humble ...

NORWALK -- For this weekend's performance, Norwalk's Lumina String Quartet will present a program spanning hundreds of years. Quartet music from Beethoven and Shostakovich will join Duke Ellington ...

University of Texas student Sean Riley needed a violin to play a particular piece of music, but not one with the customary four strings. The piece called for an instrument with six strings. But ...