Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This video of Laurent Bernadac, an engineer and lifelong musician, playing the violin looks and sounds very little like a person playing the violin. For one thing, he’s also using a looper and effects ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X To celebrate 20 years of music education, 20 violins display. West Side Story, Here Comes the Sun, ...

Robert Schumann's three Violin Sonatas are the epitome of Romanticism -- deeply atmospheric works full of song, but haunted by the ghost of Beethoven and the pull between tradition and innovation, not ...

When Jazmin Morenzi was in the first grade, she walked past the music room at Stevenson Lower School and saw older kids practicing their violins. Thinking they looked really cool, she told her parents ...

At the New York Philharmonic, concertos by Samuel Barber and Wynton Marsalis offered contrasting musical ideas: lyrical cohesion and vibrant pluralism.

The mystery of a 17th-century Stradivarius violin that was stolen in 2010 has been successfully solved, much to the relief of its owner. British authorities announced this week that the violin and its ...

Playing the violin is not one of Bob Gravlin’s talents. Makingthem just might be. That might seem a tad unusual considering Gravlin’s background.He spent 30 years as a Vista firefighter, training ...

In Skylight Theatre's latest show, Fiddler on the Roof, perhaps the most powerful piece of storytelling is truly instrumental. Two violins, played both on and off stage, survived the Holocaust. They ...

Roger Loria, a Holocaust survivor, knows the importance of music. Jewish musicians were often forced to play music in ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocaust as people were getting off of ...