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Rhythmic Rainbow - How Violinists Can Stop Rushing and Slowing Down
By Paul Stein: On Joshua Bells At Home With Friends CD he plays the second movement from the Grieg Sonata No. 3, opus 45 in C minor. At the piano is Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose playing is extracted...
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Fiddler's Favorite Recipes Episode 10: Rachel Kolly's Pesto, and Lamb 'Sashimi'
By Desirée Ruhstrat: Hard to believe we are at Episode #10 already of Fiddlers Favorites...Given that it is a holiday time for many people, I would like to this opportunity to wish you all a Happy...
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V.com weekend vote: Do you have anyone to play music with these days?
By Laurie Niles: Watching some of the wonderful music that is being posting online during these strange pandemic days, I have to say that I get a little jealous. To be quarantined with a collaborative...
View ArticleThe Week in Hope-Inspiring Spontaneous Music Online, Op. 5
By Laurie Niles: With symphony performances almost universally on hiatus, we've also put "The Week in Reviews" on hold and instead bring you a weekly roundup of performances to be found online. With so...
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Interview with Violinist Rachell Ellen Wong: Baroque Music and FB Live...
By Laurie Niles: For violinist Rachell Ellen Wong, Baroque music has given her a sense of both physical and musical freedom. Wong, who recently became the first-ever Baroque violinist to receive an...
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Fiddler's Favorite Recipes Episode 11: Chee-Yun's Arugula Salad with Rice and...
By Desirée Ruhstrat: Todays Fiddlers Favorites comes to us from the lovely violinist Chee-Yun, from her home in Dallas, Texas, where it is 88 degrees! Chee-Yun has performed with many of the world's...
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My Stradivarius Moment
By Richard Brooks: In the early 1980s, I was playing first violin in the Danbury Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer community orchestra in southwestern Connecticut. One night, at the usual Monday...
View ArticleA Road Trip with J.S. Bach
By Nathan Cole: I will now prepare for lightning to strike me, I laughed as I readied the first chord of Bachs a minor solo sonata. That chord is notorious for a whistling E string, and I had just...
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Making Intonation a Sure Thing - How Raphael Bronstein Inspired More Accurate...
By Paul Stein: I want to discuss the importance of measuring up the fingerboard, rather than down. This is just a tiny detail about the left hand, but oftentimes its the little things that count. I do...
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Fiddler's Favorite Recipes Episode 12: Austin Wulliman's Orange Mezcal...
By Desirée Ruhstrat: I am especially excited about todays Fiddlers Favorites because I am NOT usually a cocktail drinker, but this past summer when we were in Amsterdam, I had the most incredible...
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Games for Levity and Community - Violin Studios in the time of Zoom
By Susanna Klein: Is it just me, or does the time of Covid-19 online learning come with some surprising and exciting opportunities? Zoom lessons have required a lot of patience, for sure. To my...
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V.com weekend vote: Do you prefer to stand or sit when you play?
By Laurie Niles: These days we might well be wearing pajamas to play, but we can still demand healthy posture of ourselves, whether sitting or standing! But with no one watching, we are probably...
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Fiddler's Favorite Recipes Episode 14: Miriam Frieds Salmon With Herb Lemon...
By Desirée Ruhstrat: Today is a very special Fiddlers Favorites because it comes from one of my childhood idols, Miriam Fried. I will never forget hearing a recording of her Sibelius violin concerto,...
View ArticleThe Week in Hope-Inspiring Spontaneous Music Online, Op. 6
By Diana Skinner: Adjusting to isolation has gone quite nicely for me. Ive always had imaginary friends. Now many of them are actually inviting me into their living rooms to hear them play and (thanks...
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Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition Postponed Until 2021
By Laurie Niles: The third Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, originally scheduled for August 2020, has been postponed until 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nancy Zhou, first...
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To Graduating College Music Students in 2020
By Lina Bahn: With graduation happening in a moment of great uncertainty, and in the absence of a gathering of friends, family and fanfare, you may find yourself asking some existential questions: Is...
View ArticleHow to do Vibrato on the Violin
By Laurie Niles: How do you make music shimmer on the violin, how do you enhance your tone to make it gorgeous, how do you make people cry grateful tears of emotion when they hear your playing? It's...
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For the Record, Op. 116: Lara St. John; Thomas Bowes; Tabea Zimmermann;...
By Laurie Niles: Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep...
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V.com weekend vote: Will you be comfortable going back to your concert hall?
By Laurie Niles: Symphony orchestras and opera companies are not just trying to figure out when they will reopen. Theyre also trying to determine if patrons will feel comfortable returning to concert...
View ArticleLessons from a Mechanical Violin - The Bow Unencumbered by the Bow Arm
By Paul Stein: There is a fantastic museum in Sylmar, California, about 30 minutes from my home, called The Nethercutt Collection. While the main focus is on the historic, well-preserved cars, their...
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