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Maya Shankar shares lessons she learned from playing the violin for navigating life's joys and challenges.

TAYLORSVILLE — Studio3 will present "An Evening of Classical Music," a concert designed to delight and inspire lovers of good music.

TAYLORSVILLE — Studio3 Music School will present "An Evening of Classical Music" at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 18.

Italy’s finest chamber orchestra has only booked two performances in the United States, and Beaver Creek is one of them. Interpreti Veneziani hails from Venice, the same home as one of the most important composers...

Last night I finally watched the TwoSet Violins Four Million Subscriber Concert, which they held with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra:

The 1714 "da Vinci, ex-Seidel" Stradivari was sold on Thursday for $15.34 million, a price for a Strad violin that is second only to the "Lady Blunt" Strad, sold in 2011 for $15.9 million. Both violins were sold through Tarisio Auctions. The "Golden Period" Strad was used for almost 40 years by Russian-American violinist Toscha Seidel (1899-1962), who was once a classmate of Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein in the studio of Leopold ...

Note from Max Rabinovitsj to the orchestras of Planet Earth: Lose the tails. Get into the classrooms. Learn to love streaming. Rabinovitsj, who has performed professionally for nearly seven decades, has the credibility to say that. Hes been concertmaster of at least five orchestras, including the venerable St. Louis Symphony. Hes performed at the Marlboro Music Festival for six years and founded his own trio, the Da Vinci, as well as playing with a number of others. Hes shared the stage with ...

On many levels, the music is reminiscent of Vivaldi mixed with Johann Sebastian, but the genteel fabric, most notably in the slow movement, is tossed up by awkward elbow jabs of sound. It is vigorous and edgy, posing plenty of finger challenges for the violins. Happily, there is never a dull moment in this score. C.P.E Bach offers a more refined style, sensitive and more gracious, fitting with early classical music developed later by Haydn and Mozart. Unfortunately, we don’t hear his music o...