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She began playing the violin aged four, before turning her attention to the viola in 2009.
BBC: Ziya Shen
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Born in Birmingham on 17 June 1924, the world-famous conductor began playing the violin at the age of five.
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She started playing the violin in the third grade, and Seth asked Sam and Judy if he could play, too.
NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun
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"I had been playing the violin for about eight years before I got paralyzed, " said Wan in a YouTube video about the performance.
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Music commentator Miles Hoffman joins Renee Montagne to discuss the two famous fiddlers and how they each set new standards for the art of playing the violin.
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There's the father playing violin, I thought.
NPR: Family Affair, and Dvorak's Invited
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The emergence of the Roma as another aggrieved ethnic minority on an American landscape already teeming with them may disappoint people who cherish that image of the barefoot, carefree, violin-playing gypsy.
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"I was supposed to be playing Bach, and all I wanted to do was play the Mendelssohn violin concerto, " Hope says.
NPR: The Glamorous Life Of Daniel Hope
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What she does now is the culmination of all her old interests and hobbies: sewing costumes, playing violin, video editing.
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