I teach violin in Beverly Hills, and this summer I received an unusual request. Jonathan Hollander, a choreographer and founder of the nearly 40-year-old Battery Dance Company in New York, contacted ...

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons and Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 577 (Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, cond.; Viktoria Mullova, violin; Philips, 48:02). Whether we need another recording of ...

Casting a spell over your audience as a violin virtuoso is remarkable enough. But some musicians are real overachievers. Take Dmitry Sinkovsky, who guests with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (SSO) ...

We're in concert with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, from a tour stop in Columbus, Ohio. The ensemble first plays the Sinfonia from Vivaldi's opera "Giustino." Then, a movement from a Vivaldi Violin ...

In the 18th century, travelers came from all over Europe to hear Anna Maria and Chiara perform in Venice. Neither attained the wealth or the immortal fame of someone like Paganini, but composers ...