Even the world of physical things will soon become an information technology with the advent of 3D printing (The Economist Magazine recently had a picture of an actual violin that was printed out on a 3D printer).
From a church whose acoustics are meant to have the likeness of "singing in a violin, " to a chapel that literally and metaphorically unites a bride and groom in marriage, the buildings featured in the gallery above, challenge design notions of sacred spaces.
Conducts Yehudi Menuhin in a recording of the violin concerto.
They played "The Four Seasons of Afghanistan, " a version of Antonio Vivaldi's violin concertos adapted to include Afghan instruments like the plucked string rabab.
Dr Mike Butera, the firm's founder, was keen to explain to us that this is intended not to replicate one specific device (though it does a great job of guitar, violin, banjo and more), but rather to enable musicians to be able to work in a way they want to.
And in a surprising development, a researcher in Switzerland discovered a special strain of fungus that can make an ordinary violin sing like a Stradivarius.
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His last chapter, describing how a subway busker reduces a crowd of scurrying New Yorkers to rapt silence with a Bach violin sonata, is an appropriate image for our times, a sign that classical music does indeed still matter.
Among the subjects Mr. Hanson alighted upon were the Club-winged Manakin, a bird of the cloud forests of the Andes that strums its feathers like a violin.
We were kept amused with a carving of a direwolf ice sculpture, as well as a concert performance of music from the television series: Jason Yang, who received over four million YouTube views of his one-man, thirteen-violin version of the theme song, led a nine-piece orchestra, who performed admirably despite the cold and passing traffic.
"I started playing guitar actually first and quickly realized there were lots of guitar players but hey, no one was doing that on a violin, " he tells Audie Cornish, guest host of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered.
This is a new phenomenon, and Violin Memory, the subject of this post, is one of a few companies that are in the right place at the right time with the right technology.
All the sounds merged for a moment in the belly of the violin and filled the room with distress.
The ebullient musician, who plays a range of instruments including bass and violin, says he did not have much to be depressed about - but was unable to push dark thoughts away.
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She made her Carnegie Hall debut a few months later in a passionate version of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, captivating audiences and dividing critics with her eccentric, heartfelt interpretations and expressive facial and physical gestures.
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"His workmanship is so meticulous and perfect, " said Peter Seman, a Chicago violin maker and president of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers.
"Beware Your Only Friend" is a fine jangle of country-rock complete with violin veering into fiddle.
When you see the winding tubes of a horn, or a very nice old Italian violin in 3D, you feel you could touch it.
Now officers investigating claims the violin has been found in the possession of a suspected criminal in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.
Here is a man who can take his instrument and produce from it the sweetest-sounding violin or the power-pumped beat of a drum kit.
Their reaction to the offense was shock: He was removed from the school and given a new violin instructor, whose first demand of his student was that he learn the Mendelssohn concerto first.
"I feel so much ashamed of myself, being in a warm place and having my violin with me and playing music while people have to stand in long queues in order to have something to eat, " he says.
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After seeing Anantawan play in a video online, the man made a crude prosthetic device out of cardboard and took up the violin.
That sort of money will go nowhere if you want to buy a fine old violin.
Now, sticking with Ernest Bloch for a moment, if we take the opening of his second sonata for violin and piano, it's also called the Poeme Mystique.
By one dealer's reckoning, fine-violin prices have gone up by an average of nearly 12% a year since 1950.
They include basketball, chess, tennis and violin playing, Johansson found, yet a rapidly increasing range of lucky breaks spring from our capacity to recognize and seize unexpected opportunities.
But the 22-year-old Brit, who started writing music at age 4, also studied composition and violin at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama and wrote a piece for the London Philharmonic Orchestra last year.
The dreaminess is underpinned by echoing violin, a guitar whose player has clearly placed offerings at the icon of Lindsey Buckingham, and an intuitive but gritty rhythm section.
The day's events also included the dedication of a plaque with the victims' names on a wall in Giglio's harbor and a violin concert held in a local church.
When they practiced the violin on summer evenings, their shrill arpeggios elicited, among neighbors, a mixture of curiosity and envy.
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