LIVS Blog

Dalcroze Eurhythmics - Little Bodies In Musical Motion

On Saturday mornings for the past fifteen years, the basement of Stony Brook University's music department has resounded with the voices of children singing, clapping, jumping in the air, and...

A Bittersweet Goodbye to The Long Island Violin Shop

I left my Teaching Assistant position in the music department at Amherst College in 2009, the year after I graduated...

Playing Their Music: A Personal Account of Bringing Electric Violin into the Schools

The clock strikes 9:00 AM. First period orchestra has just begun. Some eyes are half opened, with heads in hands and elbows on knees, instruments are being tuned, bows tightened,...

Music Education, Creativity, and Nicola Benedetti

It’s a brilliantly sunny autumn afternoon in Nassau County on Long Island in the mid-90s. I’m four years old, taking the school bus to kindergarten in a blue floral dress...

LIVS Welcomes Our Fabulous Intern-Violinist

We are thrilled to welcome our summer intern, and talented violinist, to the Long Island Violin Shop team. Cameron started playing the violin at the age of four...

Virtual Violin Thoughts of Friday the 13th: Post #1

There is a book on the shelf of our Great Room, called “Resonance Boxes: The Art of the Violin Case”, which features the work of over fifty Israeli artists who...

An Evening of Dance, Music & Song!

Huntington Center for Performing Arts & Long Island Ballet Theater Spring Gala - 2014

Summer Music Lessons @ LIVS Studio

Hello LIVS Friends! I hope the school year is wrapping up smoothly and that you are looking forward to the joys of summertime...

Guide To Airline Travel With Musical Instruments

Musicians traveling by air with musical instruments face unprecedented uncertainties in our difficult times. Some have even had to choose at the last minute between stowing precious instruments in the...

Studio Series: An Evening in Italy

The LIVS is proud to host “An Evening in Italy,” featuring the music of cellist Amy Camus and violinist Gabriel Schaff, and the poetry of Annabelle Moseley and Carolyn Raphael....

The Passing of Carl F. Becker

On the morning of January 30, 2013, Carl F. Becker went to his eternal reward. Carl Becker was my teacher, inspiration, colleague, friend; the earth seemed to shudder as when...

Studio Series: Annabelle Moseley & Barbara Crooker w/ Shem Guibbory

Featuring poetry from Annabelle Moseley and Barbara Crooker, and Shem Guibbory performing on a Rufino violin works by Grażyna Bacewicz and Johann Sebastian Bach.