Nora Taksdal plays the viola and is the principal violist of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Nora Taksdal plays the viola – the slightly larger sibling of the violin – and is the principal violist of ...

In the hierarchical world of classical musicians, viola players, more than most, have had to bear the strings and arrows of outrageous fortune. For nearly five centuries, they have been portrayed -- ...

A Chicago violin and viola player is paving the way for young black musicians. Robert C. Fisher, who came to Chicago from Mississippi nearly 30 years ago, has devoted his life to music - both as a ...

S V Ramachandran from Chembur, is a well a known violinist as well as viola player. He is an '˜A' grade artist with Air India Radio and Doordarshan. He has accompanied several eminent vocalists and ...

Our high school orchestra has performed three of your pieces in the past year, "Fiddle-Faddle", "Sleigh Ride" and "The Syncopated Clock." Each piece was played well and received an enthusiastic ...

The viola is in nature an undersized pansy. In art it is an oversized violin with a tubby, whiskey-contralto voice. Except for low-moaning the inner voices of symphonies and string quartets, it is not ...

PLYMOUTH — The widely-celebrated Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute has been cultivating gifted young musicians for eight-plus decades. Among its newest initiates, Plymouth Meeting viola ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court has ruled in favor of a viola player who says he suffered irreparable hearing damage from loud music at rehearsals, in a case likely to reverberate through the music ...

The viola is an often undervalued instrument, yet it carries the weight of uniting an orchestra’s entire string section. With its deep, melodic sounds, it pulls together the overarching melody the ...

When Durango High School student Nick Wilbur was 2 years old, his parents took him along to a fiddling competition in Mancos. There, the toddler took an unusual, almost rabid interest in the music.