November 2016

While we occasionally see instruments dated from the late 1930s and even into the early ’40s, many workers were pulled away to industries supporting war.

By Bob Doerschuk The O’Connor Band brings killer vocals into a triple-fiddle mix Is it a paradox that some of the most exciting innovations in American music stem from its most deeply planted traditions? Mark O’Connor doesn’t think so. With…

By Laurie Niles One of the most dazzling moments in violin repertoire occurs in the Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, when the pyrotechnics of the first-movement cadenza turn into an accompanying figure, ushering the orchestra back…

By Patrick Sullivan Luthier Joseph Curtin leads the violin world’s politest revolution He’s calm, soft-spoken, and well-mannered. But if the violin world has revolutionaries, Joseph Curtin must surely be counted among them. For years, the Michigan luthier has been deeply…

By Inge Kjemtrup On the wealth of stringed-instrument resources within walking distance of my Marylebone home’s front door Since moving to London 18 years ago, I’ve lived in Marylebone, the area bounded by Oxford Street in the south, Edgware Road…