Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

The most common glitch is for a string to break mid-performance. What’s the solution? Stop the performance and let the soloist restring the instrument? Nope. As they say, the show must go on.

Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen gives us all a lesson in how to recover an unexpected instrument mishap without missing a beat. While performing Tchaikovsky’s majestic Violin Concerto with the ...

Watch this cool-headed soloist do exactly the right thing in one of the most stressful concert situations imaginable. You know when you’re playing Britten’s violin concerto and your E-string snaps?