Can a violin be an instrument for a scam? You may have seen people playing Bach or Vivaldi on the street, inviting passersby to toss them a coin or crumpled bill in appreciation. But there are reports ...
The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents The Bach-Mendelssohn Connection, a ten-day festival of concerts and salons that will explore the unexpected or ...
SAO PAULO, May 15 (Reuters) - Maria Luiza Kaluzny thought that to become a successful violinist she would need to leave her working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest ...
Brothers Tourie and Damien Escobar were just young boys when they began earning money by playing the violin on New York's subways. While attending Julliard School of Music, they started incorporating ...
The violinist chose the steps of Georgetown’s golden-domed PNC bank as his stage. He placed a plastic jug in his open violin case and set a music stand nearby. He plugged his iPod into an amp to ...
Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman once said “Sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.” The Marshall Fire called William Scherer to that ...
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on bogus buskers who fake violin virtuosity with recorded music tracks and ask for money to help with rent or medical... Opinion: That unbelievable street violinist could ...