violin

Just before the most important violin competition of her career, seventeen-year-old prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother, and a potential romance with her most talented rival.

Jewish Abe's grandfather wants him to be a violinist while African-American Wille's father plans for him to be a great baseball pitcher, but it turns out that the two boys are more talented when they switch hobbies.

Outspoken Mags decides to help her new friend Gillian, a talented violin student, reconcile with her estranged father so that he will allow her to attend a prestigious music school in England.

Two boys, one a Hungarian peasant, and the other heir to an Austrian aristocracy, become locked in a complex relationship based upon their shared musical brilliance that leads them to become companions, rivals, and eventually lethal enemies.

Nina must step in for her dad and play her special song at the fiddle competition when he is stung by wasps.

Allegra spends her twelfth summer practicing a Mozart concerto for a violin competition and finding many significant connections in her world.

Text and photographs follow ten-year-old Alex through the process of learning to play a musical instrument from her selection of her violin to her first solo recital less than a year later.

The author traces the history and stories behind six instruments--five violins and one cello--by famed seventeeth-century violin maker, Antonio Stradivari, and examines the craftsmanship and techniques used by the artist that made his violins popular.

A close-up look at the violin, naming and illustrating its parts and describing how it makes music.

Wandering through the Ozarks and bringing joy to people with his music, Fiddlin' Sam seeks the right person to take up his fiddle and carry on the practice.