Adam Eccleston: Hello from All Classical Radio. I am Adam Eccleston, guest hosting for WQXR. Today I have a wonderful program of music that features the violin and the viola. We'll highlight both ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

How is a viola different from an onion? Nobody cries when you cut up a viola. In the hierarchical world of classical musicians, viola players have had, more than most, to bear the strings and arrows ...

Amid the high-pitched melodies so common to student recitals, a lower, mellower tone emerged on Whalley Avenue the other day. The occasion was a recital by students, many of them new to their ...

We’ll hear a thousand years of rich, deep music and history. The history of the viola. Garth Knox on the Medieval Fiddle (Dániel Vass / ECM Records) In the world of stringed instruments, the humble ...

Jo Bird's creative wings will not be clipped. While she plays the viola, she sees no reason to limit herself to classical music. Bird is co-founder of Two Star Symphony, a progressive classical ...

A music lover with at least $45 million to fiddle around with can get their hands on the world’s most expensive instrument. Sotheby’s is hawking an incredibly rare viola, crafted in 1719 by the ...

As the year draws to a close, a new album has cast a fresh and unexpected light on our traditional music. Sligo fiddle player Séamus McGuire has taken the viola out from the shadows and placed it ...

Jennifer Stumm is known to the world as a viola player. But when she's talking about the instrument and its music she turns again and again to the character of its different voices. “I’m so inspired ...

How do you keep your violin from getting stolen? Put it in a viola case. What's the difference between a violin and a viola? The viola burns longer. Violas, which are larger and have a lower pitch ...