For her Tiny Desk Concert at the headquarters of National Public Radio, Duluth musician Gaelynn Lea opted for a haunting original tune, an old instrumental fiddle piece and two songs with special ...

Reaching back to the 1950s, this collection highlights the New York School composer’s fragmented, conversational style, as well as his music’s patient, intuitive qualities. Save this story Save this ...

Violin pieces are an essential element of the musical output of Grażyna Bacewicz. In the works written for this instrument the composer - being a very good violin player herself - uses her profound ...

Violinist Nicola Benedetti has known the legendary trumpet player and composer Wynton Marsalis since she was a teenager at the outset of her vaunted career. The Scottish musican spent years urging the ...

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis.—When Georgia Rae Mussared’s violin progress began flagging four years ago, and with it her irrepressible enthusiasm, her mother, Ronilyn “Roni” Mussared, turned to Google and ...

We rank the all-time great, most stirring violin concertos… from Bruch and Beethoven, to Mozart and Marsalis, here are the very best. The violin is one of the most expressive instruments in the ...