Local artists don’t fiddle around when handed an unvarnished violin by the Laguna Beach Music Festival. They create “Artful Violins,” meant to be displayed rather than played. The violins are ...

Three years after his death, my father, virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, made headlines all over the world when his beloved Stradivarius violin, stolen 35 years earlier, was recovered by the FBI.

When you think of bird songs, you probably think of songs that come from their mouths. But hummingbirds have a whole different kind of music—one that comes from their feathers. As they fly, they ...