Freya Chen, who is just 9 years old, talks about becoming the first person in the United States to play Wolfgang Mozart's ...
Hear the instruments and scores, on view in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, that proved foundational for ...
Some of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's personal belongings are crossing the Atlantic for the first time as part of a new exhibition in Manhattan. Visitors to the Morgan Library & Museum will be able to ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is not unusual for musicians to talk about their instruments as though they were temperamental spouses. But ...
The violin that Mozart used as a child left Austria on Friday for a state visit to China by Austrian government members. There, a seven-year-old girl will play the storied instrument for Chinese ...
Newport String Project, a quartet of professional musicians, is holding open practice sessions every last Wednesday of each month through May.
Fatboy Slim has recalled how he once took violin lessons with the Prime Minister. The DJ and producer – real name Norman Cook – also spoke about how he went to the same school as Keir Starmer for five ...
Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, scored for solo string quartet and string orchestra, is one of the central pinnacles of the orchestral repertoire. In 1904, a crisis arose when Sir Henry Wood, ...
Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...
Paloma So received a full scholarship from the New England Conservatory, not Harvard University. In 2014, violinist Paloma So made her debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, performing as ...
Today's featured work is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, performed by young German violinist Laura Handler with the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anna Handler. Also ...