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violin

[vahy-uh-lin] / ˌvaɪ əˈlɪn /
NOUN
musical instrument
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In Yie-Eun Chun’s spritely Violin Concerto, which was commissioned by the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

The program was to have been Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Schoenberg’s tonally kaleidoscopic, over-the-top early tone poem “Pelleas und Melisande.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2024

Pieces by Ravel and Pablo de Sarasate shone as they should, and the evening’s unlikely centerpiece, Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, was a 30-minute fever dream of serialist fancies and ferocities.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2024

Alongside Eddy Chen and Brett Yang, fans of TwoSet Violin have been inspired by a fictional musician the duo have created, called Ling Ling.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2023

Her mind was a tornado of thoughts and questions and anxiety while she recorded herself playing the violin section of Paganini’s “Cantabile for Violin and Guitar” for the CD she was making for the Beiderman.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser



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