I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds ...

They lived, as John Updike said Vladimir Nabokov wrote prose, “ecstatically … in the intensity of its intelligence and reflective joy ... A cabinet to store sheet music was faced with ...

A violin built at the Dachau concentration camp by a Jewish inmate has revealed its hidden message 80 years later.

Do you miss joy in your life, despite all your efforts? Joy is something we can choose. Here are four ways to invite it in.

A Jewish prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had ...

The little-known story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, a musical craftsman who gathered and restored violins that survived the ...

“A computer can play every note perfectly, but it cannot make you cry or feel joy,” he says. “Competitions like Classic Violin Olympus remind us of the human element in music, of the vulnerability, ...

The Violin Maker,” a new play based on the true story of Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein who gathered and restored ...

Theater Critic Sean McMullen has handed over The Showbuzz to the Grunion’s Pinch of Salt Columnist Harry Saltzgaver for the week. A tour de force. It’s hard to think of a better description of “The ...