Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

I held my breath and drew the bow across the strings. I was rewarded with some sweet notes, sprinkled with a few thin, random ones I wasn’t aiming for at all. Meanwhile, the tip of my bow had drifted ...

It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...

Learning the violin is difficult enough on its own, but when you're BLIND and racing against the clock, it feels almost ...

Violinist Shiqi Luo is teaching violin at Brighter Bee Academy in Jersey City(Photo by Zhi Li) Violinist Shiqi Luo is teaching violin at Brighter Bee Academy in Jersey City(Photo by Zhi Li) NEW YORK, ...

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In an interview with Q’s Tom Power, Bell also talks about his early life as a child prodigy and how he fell in love with the ...

Actress Sakina Jaffrey, a Nyack resident, is understandably proud of her father, Sanford Allen, who, at age 23, became the first full-time African-American musician to join the New York Philharmonic.