Few living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins. “The Messiah” Strad rests in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed “Alard” is owned by an English ...

There is only one Stradivarius violin in Poland, a rare example that survived the turmoil of the Second World War and returned to Polish hands. Now, Janusz Wawrowski, a violinist and professor at ...

During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing ...

Among the violin virtuosos who play a Stradivarius today are Itzhak Perlman, Akiko Suwanai and Joshua Bell. “I can’t think of anything else that has been frozen in time and stands as the holy ...

Frohlich uses it to probe the anatomy of the world’s greatest violins, including those made by Antonio Stradivari between 1677 and 1727. Musicians throughout Europe traveled to Italy to purchase ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted ...

Nicole Ault’s lament of our culture’s policy of giving no more than one holiday per year to any given oratorio—even George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”—fails to note that this leaves ...

Momoa, who played swordmaster Duncan Idaho in 2021’s Dune, is now making a comeback for Dune: Messiah. In the first film, Momoa’s character Duncan Idaho dies in the film and did not appear in ...

A violin from a Nazi concentration camp nearly went unnoticed for over eight decades, then a secret note changed everything. In 1941, while imprisoned at Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish ...

It is also deprived of one of the most beloved works of sacred music: George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah.” To many Westerners, Handel’s “Messiah” is as embedded in Christmas pageantry ...

A dozen of the world’s finest violinists are locked in a fierce bow against bow battle to become the first-ever winner of the Classic Violin Olympus in Dubai. The classic violinists each earned ...