Google “viola joke” and you’ll be rewarded with thousands, an afternoon’s worth of hilarity at the expense of one of the most expressive sound producing machines ever conjured up. Here’s a popular ...

This month, University of Arizona viola professor Molly Gebrian published a database of pieces for viola created by underrepresented composers. The database contains over 1,100 composers and ...

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 ...

Describing it as 'music's secret fire', Tom Service explores the world of the viola. Speaking to Lawrence Power, one of the world's great viola players, who has commissioned numerous works for his ...

The viola is the middle voice of the string family. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin. Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

On Sunday, Nov. 2, the Chatter String Quartet returns to Las Vegas to perform at the Castaneda Hotel at 3 pm. The name ...

On a stormy, steamy summer day in 2003, as I approached the Gasometer Oberhausen, which the Third Reich used for fuel storage, I expected the enormous cylindrical structure would prove the gloomiest ...

How is lightning like a violist’s fingers? Neither one strikes in the same place twice. How do you keep your violin from getting stolen? Put it in a viola case. What’s the difference between a viola ...

Mike Viola might be the most popular rocker most people have never heard of. That’s because the Stoughton native’s gift for pop songwriting has most often been heard in movie theaters, as part of the ...