Enclosed are photographs of my old violin I bought at a garage sale (shown below). Later I found the marks “Antonius Stradivarius” and “Made in Czecho-Slowakia” inside the violin. Is it really a ...

Every few months seems to bring another headline about a lost violin. This week, it was Philippe Quint, who lost his violin in New York City. David Sternbach, director of the Center for Arts and ...

After I mastered my first concerto at age 14, my parents decided to get me a nice violin. I tried out dozens of instruments before I found my match: a German violin with gold-tipped pegs and lustrous ...

Isaac Stern was one of the most accomplished and celebrated classical violinists of the 20th Century. He was also credited with saving Carnegie Hall, a storied building that was scheduled for ...

“Do you believe in the literal truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ?” We had just tuned our instruments, the way we did at the beginning of every lesson, when my violin teacher abruptly asked me ...