The drowsy violinist whose $80,000 instrument was either lost or stolen after he dozed off on the bench of a Brooklyn subway station was playing a happy tune yesterday. “It’s a miracle,” said Tom Chiu ...

San Francisco police have cracked the case of the vanishing violins. Over the past few months, investigators say, a San Francisco man ordered at least three handcrafted violins -- worth as much as $25 ...

The romantic draw of music has made a great impact on Tom Metzler’s life. It has taken him from an impressionable young boy to the owner of a violin shop in Glendale. When he was 7 or 8 years old, ...

Police had music for two violin owners` ears Thursday as they recovered a pair of 19th Century violins valued as high as $43,000 that had been missing since 1986. Police charged Juan Carlos Toranzo, ...

After moving from New York to South Pasadena three years ago, violinist Susan Pascale stopped by her neighborhood elementary school to register her second-grade daughter for the basics -- reading, ...

At 7, she was the youngest musician in her symphony, standing no higher than her conductor’s belt buckle. Fast forward 10 years: The child prodigy is now an accomplished violinist. On Saturday night, ...

Until a few months ago, the only image most people had of Rachel Barton was of a 20-year-old violin prodigy performing raptly on the formidable stage at Orchestra Hall. Then she was nearly killed in a ...

“Music of the Heart,” the real-life story of an inner-city violin teacher struggling against an unfeeling bureaucracy to keep her program going, is the sort of tear-inducing feel-gooder that only a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Holding a violin, using a bow and plucking strings are some of the basic foundational skills when learning how to play the instrument — and it’s an experience being brought to ...