The symphony Isaac Stern, the concerto, I heard it.

Now over the centuries it grew into the big pieces we always think of, like concertos and symphonies, but even the most ambitious masterpiece can have as its central mission to bring you back to a fragile and personal moment like this one from the Beethoven Violin Concerto.

That's a violin.

I play the violin.

Tom played the violin.

Sirena Huang dazzles on violin

The violin is very beautiful.

Can you play the violin?

Einstein loved playing the violin.

Tom is a violin teacher.

Tom plays the violin well.

Tom is playing the violin now.

He plays the violin very well.

She plays the violin very well.

She is practicing the violin now.

Who's the man playing the violin?

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Who is the man playing the violin?

He is very good at playing violin.

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You should practice playing the violin every day.

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What does a violin have to do with technology?

Ahn Trio A modern take on piano, violin, cello

But let's move on to a piece where clearly I'm behaving myself, and that is my Concerto for Orchestra.

The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.

So El Sistema in Venezuela uses a violin as a technology of learning.

He was dying of leukemia and he knew it, and he dedicated this concerto to his wife, Dita, who was herself a concert pianist.

It's what makes a child play a violin at home, while his father works in his carpentry.

After Mr. Heifetz's concert a lady came over and complimented, Oh, Mr. Heifetz, your violin sounded so great tonight.

I remember when I was little my mom asked me, would you like to play the violin or the piano?

And Mr. Heifetz was a very cool person, so he picked up his violin and said, Funny, I don't hear anything.

But I think it's very personal and unique that, although each violin looks pretty similar, that no two violins sound the same.

I can actually do all sorts of things. I can play with a violin bow. I don't have to use the chopsticks.

SW Or maybe Sirena Huang would like to learn some arias on her violin, and Einstein can sing along with some opera?

The hurdy gurdy is the only musical instrument that uses a crank to turn a wheel to rub strings, like the bow of a violin, to produce music.

And it was at his house that I heard for the first time Bartok's Third Piano Concerto and learned from Mr. Teszler that it had been composed in nearby Asheville, North Carolina in the last year of the composer's life.

That is how we train musicians, barbers, doctors, and scientists. Consider how long it takes an adult to learn to speak a language or a musician to master the violin.

So he got Joshua Bell to take his million dollar violin down to a Washington D.C. subway station and stand in the corner and see how much money he would make.

Mark Applebaum writes music that breaks the rules in fantastic ways, composing a concerto for a florist and crafting a musical instrument from junk and found objects. This quirky talk might just inspire you to shake up the rules of your own creative work.

A violinist, as we heard, who has done 10,000 hours of violin practice, some area that controls the movements of fingers in the brain change a lot, increasing reinforcement of the synaptic connections.

Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one man orchestra.

I mean, when I first got my violin and tried to play around, it was actually, really bad because it didn't sound like the way I'd heard from other kids so horrible and so scratchy so it wasn't entertaining at all.

I bet you'd never heard of a Stroh violin before Tom Waits dug it back up! Anyway, it used a large metal horn as its resonator instead of a wooden box so it could be picked up better by recording equipment before the late 1920s.

By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and different. To This Day, his spoken word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video . Here, he gives a glorious, live reprise with backstory and violin accompaniment by Hannah Epperson.