Beauties, if you’ve watched Viola Davis as Annalise Keating from the hit ABC television series, How To Get Away With Murder, then you know that she absolutely killed it in that role and we’re still ...

The viola, like the accordion and the banjo, is often the butt of musical jokes. Not as dramatic as its string cousins the violin or the cello, the viola nevertheless has a beautiful sound and is a ...

Never gets old, unless it’s... old. Don’t shoot the messenger, but this joke from 1714 could be the earliest known viola joke. According to Wiki, the well-trodden genre of the viola joke could have ...

In the hierarchical world of classical musicians, viola players, more than most, have had to bear the strings and arrows of outrageous fortune. For nearly five centuries, they have been portrayed -- ...

IT’S the dumb blonde of the string section, the Rodney Dangerfield of the orchestra, the Polish joke of the music world. We speak of the viola, that ungainly love child of the violin and cello. Don’t ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Musicians at Fort Lewis College know how to tell a story, throw a party and indulge in a joke or two. This weekend’s recitals prove the point. Friday night (Sept. 22), the FLC Artist in Residence ...

The Oscar winner and her husband Julius Tennon had the time of their lives at Clooney’s Lake Como villa Viola Davis had a honeymoon like few others. The Oscar winner married actor and producer Julius ...

Google “viola jokes” and you’ll never run out of material (How do you keep your violin from getting stolen? Put it in a viola case.) But hear a good violist, and the jokes fade instantly. The ...

Few violists are born. Most have the instrument thrust upon them. In fact, the viola -- the overlooked stepchild of the orchestra’s string section -- is rarely studied as a first instrument at all.

As far as the viola is concerned, Paul Neubauer was a marked man. The Los Angeles native, who will appear as soloist with the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra tomorrow night in Allentown, recalled that ...

We’ll hear a thousand years of rich, deep music and history. The history of the viola. Garth Knox on the Medieval Fiddle (Dániel Vass / ECM Records) In the world of stringed instruments, the humble ...