The Singing Violin

The Singing Violin is a tense thriller about a young girl trying to escape a life of prostitution. When beautiful young Ryanna goes out for a drink with her boyfriend’s sister, she realizes the danger that she is in. For this is no ordinary pub, but a brothel, and she runs away. Harry, the brothel owner, desires Ryanna and catches her, but she escapes him and turns for help to her boyfriend, Richard, who just passed his violin examination with the symphony orchestra. As Richard is playing a concert one night, Ryana watches him on television and excitedly phones her brother Nicholas in New York. A knock on her door announces it’s a flower delivery. When Ryanna opens the door and sees it’s Harry, she screams. Harry drugs her and takes her to an old house he just bought. Nicholas, still on the phone, alerts police who are there when Richard comes home to find Ryana has been kidnapped. The hunt is on to find Ryanna before her life is forever ruined.

The story of young Antonio Stradivari, violin maker.

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of S words that reveal a spectacular story! With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The S Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.

What are the key topics that define Romantic violin playing?

In The Naked Voice, W. Stephen Smith invites all singers to improve their vocal technique through his renowned and time-tested wholistic method. Focusing not only on the most important technical, but also on the often overlooked psychological and spiritual elements of learning to sing, his book allows readers to develop their own full and individual identities as singers. With philosophies and techniques drawn from a lifetime of teaching voice, Smith demonstrates how one can reveal the true unique sound of one's own voice by singing with the whole self. The master's method, presented in concrete and comprehensible terms with helpful illustrations, is enhanced by a CD containing exercises performed by singers from Smith's own studio-singers whose talent and training bring them across the country and around the world. The clear and easy style of The Naked Voice welcomes the reader into Smith's teaching studio, and into conversation with Smith himself as he presents the six simple and elegant exercises that form the core of his method. These exercises provide a foundation for free singing, and lead singers through the step-by-step process of mastering the technique. Throughout, Smith speaks sympathetically and encouragingly to the singer in search of an unencumbered and effective approach to the art. The Naked Voice is a must-read for all singers, giving teachers and students, amateurs and professionals, access to the methods and concepts that have earned Smith his reputation as one of the most highly-sought-after vocal instructors in the international arena today.

An invaluable guide to the available historical source material on playing the violin and viola.