When most people think violins and rock ‘n’ roll, what immediately comes to mind are the early experiments of Velvet Underground violist John Cale, or, worse yet, the dust in the wind of Kansas.

When Jazmin Morenzi was in the first grade, she walked past the music room at Stevenson Lower School and saw older kids practicing their violins. Thinking they looked really cool, she told her parents ...

(Three of them own and play an Old Italian.) The team laid all 12 violins out on a table and told the soloists to pick one that could hypothetically replace their own instrument for an upcoming tour.