In the 1930s, as Hitler rose to power, tens of thousands of Jewish people fled Germany, and 13-year-old Eva Black was one of them. She escaped to the United States with few possessions, but one — her ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A violin thrown some seventy years ago from a train transporting French Jews to the Nazi Auschwitz death camp will sound in the concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic on Tuesday ...

Over the years Ravinia Festival’s “Rising Stars” series has more or less lived up to its name, showcasing precocious talents on the verge of an international career. Among its alumni are Gil Shaham, ...

The sound of a violin found at a PoW camp and restored "sings out at you" A violin made by a German soldier at an Essex prisoner of war camp has been restored and is to be played again. The instrument ...

Like many a mother, Charles Rudig’s mom sent him to take piano lessons. Young Charles, however, spent much of his lesson time under the piano staring up at the bottom where he could clearly see the ...

German-born Dietmar Machold from Bremen, one of the world's foremost dealers in rare and expensive violins until his firm went bankrupt in 2010, has been sentenced in Austria to six years in jail for ...

The eastern German town of Brandenburg hosted an international workshop for violin-makers. It took a Canadian living and working there to stage the event, which sounded promising right from the start.

"Each violin that you are going to play, it’s for millions of people that are dead. This is victory. And each concert is a victory." —Amnon Weinstein Weinstein is a violin maker who has spent his life ...

BERLIN (AP) - German police say they have recovered a violin worth $2.6 million that a musician had mistakenly left on a train. A spokesman for German federal police says the woman forgot the violin ...