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The violin that survived the Titanic belonged to bandmaster Wallace Hartley, who perished with the ship.  Picture: Getty / Alamy By Siena Linton, ClassicFM   This violin holds a lifetime of stories in the grain of its wood...  O f all the instruments in the world,  violins  and other string instruments are often renowned for their longevity, with the centuries-old creations of Italian luthiers, Amati and  Stradivari , holding hundreds of years’ worth of stories, and selling for millions of pounds today. Few, however, can compete with that of the  Titanic violin  – the instrument played in April 1912, as the RMS  Titanic  sank into the North Atlantic Ocean after its fatal collision with an iceberg. Today, the violin is held at the Titanic Museum in Tennessee, as part of their public display of artefacts and memorabilia from the ship. But the story of how it got there is not quite so simple... An inscription on the tailpiece of the violin...

...‘sleeps with his violin’ and ‘creates melodies’ Janet Jackson's son loves the violin.  Picture: Getty By Maddy Shaw Roberts, ClassicFM Janet Jackson reckons her two-year-old son could follow in the family footsteps and become a musical prodigy, as he has started sleeping with his violin. Janet Jackson, international pop icon and the youngest child of the Jackson family, has revealed her son could be following in his family’s musical footsteps. Speaking to Australia’s  Stellar  magazine, Janet said that Eissa, who is just two years old, loves playing the  violin  and practises it almost every day. “He kept taking his drum stick and running it across his guitar,” she revealed. “I thought, ‘Why is he playing it like a cello?’ “He went into his room and got a figurine of a violin and brought it to me. Then he grabbed his drumstick and guitar and kept going.” Janet Jackson gave an interview with Stellar m...

Nigel Kennedy Violinist Nigel Kennedy’s unique talent and improvisational technique has done much to popularise classical music, particularly among young people. Brighton-born Nigel Kennedy was a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School, tutored by the legendary Menuhin himself, and later at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay. Kennedy's career has taken him across four continents, performing with the world’s major orchestras and conductors and appearing at the most important classical festivals in Europe and the United States.  Major debuts include his 1977 London Royal Festival Hall performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, with the Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti, his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1980 and his New York orchestral debut in 1987.  When not touring, he divides his time between residences in Malvern, Worcestershire and Kraków, Poland with his wife and daughter. Kennedy is a supporter of the football club Aston Villa.  Signed to EMI Cl...

United Airlines staff 'wrestled' violin from musician in airport altercation 6 June 2017, 11:23 0 According to a statement from violinist Yennifer Correia’s lawyer, a United Airlines supervisor attempted to use physical force to remove her instrument from her. Violinist Croreia was attempting to travel from Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport to a concert with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra when the alleged incident took place.  In the statement, written by lawyer Philip A. McNaughton, it is said that Correia was “in the process of boarding her flight from Houston to St. Louis when a United supervisor refused to permit her to carry her violin onto the plane.” After explaining that she needed to carry the violin with her into the cabin, the supervisor “told her there were ‘no options’ and became belligerent… Without provocation, the supervisor lunged for Ms. Correia’s case and, incredibly, tried to wrestle it away from the mus...

By Sarah Neufeld, ClassicFM London Sarah Neufeld knows all about pushing the boundaries of her instrument: as a violinist with Canadian indie rock titans Arcade Fire and equally as an experimental solo artist, she's become a torchbearer for expanding listeners' minds. So who better than her to provide us with a superb playlist of modern works that will rewire your brain a bit? Here's what she's picked for you: 1. Some - Nils Frahm 2. Atomos XII - A Winged Victory For The Sullen 3. Never The Way She Was - Colin Stetson, Sarah Neufeld 4. Parry: Interruptions (Heart And Breath Nonet): VI French Guitars -yMusic, Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, Richard Reed Parry 5. The Candlelight Vigil - Jóhann Jóhannsson 6. Harmonium - Max Richter 7. Part IV - Nico Muhly 8. High Above a Grey Green Sea - Colin Stetson 9. Nijùshichi - Sylvain Chauveau, Stéphane Garin 10. Where The Light Comes In - Sarah Neufeld 11. Ogives/Redisributed - Eluvium 12. Apreludes (In C Sharp Major) -...

By Daniel Ross, ClassicFM London Just how good does a Stradivarius sound, and could you pick one out in a blind test? The Strad magazine staged one to find out. image: http://assets7.classicfm.com/2010/04/stradivarius-violin-1264422192-article-0.jpg Earlier this month, The Strad magazine got the leader of the London Symphony Orchestra to play six different violins in a blind test - one of them being a legendary Stradivarius model from 1709. Listen to the test below and see if you can work out which  violin  is the Stradivarius - you might be surprised… The other violins that you can hear are an 1850 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, a 1923 Giuseppe Fiorini, a modern Del Gesù copy, a Mirecourt French trade violin from around 1900 and an 1835 A.S.P. Bernardel. Visit The Strad's feature on the experiment to find out more about what happened. Share 1K More Violin features This is what makes a Stradivarius violin sound ...