It feels reasonable to say that millions of people know Mike Viola’s music and could recite a lot of his lyrics but have no ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Library of Congress last month, Roberto Díaz was playing on an exceedingly rare viola. What didn’t cross his mind, he says, is just how much the hunk of maple and spruce clutched beneath his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...