It didn’t matter to six-year-old Nora Mendelson that no one else was in earshot recently when she told her mom, Cathy Humikowski, that she had a “secret idea.” “We were outside, and nobody was there, ...

Even my wife, a psychologist, falls prey to the seductive idea that a $5 trip to Target after a violin lesson will eventually result in our son associating violin practice with good things. The story ...

When I was in elementary school, my mother signed me up for piano lessons. I would be lying if I said I enjoyed every minute of it; sometimes, it was an absolute nightmare playing a measure over and ...

These pieces of music are all terrifyingly ambitious and virtuosic – and they might just make your fingers bleed. Here are the most difficult pieces ever written for the violin. Looking for some ...

Kev Marcus playing violin (right) along with Wil Baptiste (left) at violin practice at Dillard High School for the Performing Arts. But then, you know, after middle school, I went to high school and ...

Sometimes, when things are stressful, nothing but the soothing sound of a solo violin will cut it to bring your heart rate down and induce a state of musical bliss. For those moments, we’ve chosen a ...