With a career spanning nearly four decades, Joshua Bell has established ... Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Bell began playing the violin at the age of four and made his debut with the Philadelphia ...

What: “Voice and the Violin” with Joshua Bell and Peter Dugan. Larisa Martínez had do withdraw from the program due to illness. When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6 Where: Weill Hall, Green Music ...

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But for many violin players and restorers, Strads are incomparable to even the best modern violins. "It's not just what the audience hears on a sort of 'taste test,'" between an old and modern ...

JOSHUA BELL ... (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) BELL: There is a reason why the Stradivarius are in demand by, you know, violin soloists etc., that - it's not just for the name. It's something very, very ...

Violinist Joshua Bell plays his Stradivarius violin from 1713 in Oakville, Calif., in 2010. Bell tells NPR there's something special about a Strad. The violin up for auction was made during ...

An Oscar-winning musical score is only one of the many reasons to watch this superb film, which traces the strange history of a cursed violin, from its production in 17th-century Italy ...

By the 17th century, the violin’s importance had already been established both as a solo instrument and as the workhorse of instrumental ensembles. And it was in Italy during this period that ...

No. 15 overall pick in this year’s draft enjoys whirlwind first night as member of Red Wings organization Red Wings select ‘really good two-way player’ Michael Brandsegg-Nygard at No.

Most Americans know Alexander Graham Bell as an inventor of the telephone. But few know that the central interest of his life was education for deaf children or that he was one of the strongest ...