Get ready to get very, very Stradivari. Starting Wednesday, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is hosting four days of concerts and viewing events — in four locations throughout Los Angeles — to ...

NEW YORK — There are violinists who talk about Strads, which are old, and Zygs, which are less old. The violinist Chad Hoopes, who used to play a Strad, now plays the other. The word “newer” would ...

Elizabeth Pitcairn knew the violin was great from the moment she tried it. Only later did it become famous. Violinists call Pitcairn's instrument, made in 1721 by the revered Antonio Stradivari, the ...

Scott Yoo honors Vivaldi by playing an excerpt from “The Four Seasons” on a $15 million Stradivari violin. From Vivaldi: Something Completely Different. In near by Bergamo, Igor found me a Stradivari ...

In the world of violins, the names Stradivari and Guarneri are sacred. For three centuries, violin-makers and scientists have studied the instruments made by these Italian craftsmen. So far no one has ...