Take a musical journey back in time when Courtly Noyse brings music from the Renaissance — along with reproduction instruments of that era — to the Rancho Bernardo Library. Seating is limited for the ...

The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Consort with Paul O’Dette, lute; Peter Holman, director; Hyperion. The seven “passionate pavans” in John Dowland’s 1604 collection of dance music nearly ...

Tod Hedrick played the viola da gamba, a popular Renaissance and Baroque period instrument, with his ensemble as part of the Sunday Afternoons Live concert series at First Congregational Church of Old ...

The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

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 ...

Jeff Reider runs the cello bow slowly over a clean-burning flame, fine hairs from a Mongolian stallion cinching together in a taught line under his watchful eye. “There’s a fine line between cinching ...