On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.

A member of the Polaris Dawn flight crew performed the first violin solo in space — appropriately to the tune of a “Star Wars” theme — after participating in the first-ever civilian spacewalk. After ...

Violinist Nathan Cole was named first associate concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2011. Not long afterward, he was assigned the prominent violin solo for a performance at the Hollywood ...