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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Ray Ushikubo started playing a $20 violin when he was 6. Now, at 24, he’s playing a rare one worth more than eight ...

“Working twice as hard and being twice as good.” Sound familiar, immigrant parents? I have just read an intriguing memoir by American author Amy Chua: ‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother’ – a candid, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The phrase “the world’s smallest violin” is dripping with ...

When Melinda Hofstetter was 7 years old, all she wanted for Christmas was a violin. “No one knew why,” the Butler Twp. woman said. She started lessons right away. Eventually she made the instrument ...

A violin played by the band leader of the Titanic as it sank in the 1997 Hollywood film has been sold for £54,000 at a "record breaking" auction. The violin was used to play the hymn Nearer My God To ...

The violin played in the 1997 epic movie "Titanic" about the Belfast-built ship's disaster is expected to fetch up to £60k at auction this month as the world acknowledges the 113th anniversary of the ...

Known as the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius, the violin was once owned by the renowned Hungarian musician Joseph Joachim. Sotheby's A valuable violin with a storied past will be sold at Sotheby’s in February ...

Just days after implementing a formal ban on a dozen “doctrinally problematic” hymns, a Missouri bishop has rescinded his original decree, instead opening a yearlong consultation process to determine ...

For generations, Catholics had to navigate their way around the Index of Forbidden Books. Now, some Catholics will have to do the same with the Index of Forbidden Music, Liturgical Division. Bishop W.

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in their lyrics as well as a ...