Syosset Arts School In Danger of Closing
The Long Island High School For The Arts, a Nassau/Suffolk BOCES educational institution, is $500k in debt and in danger of permanently closing.
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Violin of the Month: David T. Van Zandt
30 Years of Violin Craft - Professional luthier David T. Van Zandt is a Seattle based maker crafting impressive instruments for modern and period performance alike.
SCMEA Scholarships Deadline Tomorrow!
Attention all Suffolk County Music Students in Grades 5-11. The deadline for the 2015 SCMEA Scholarship program is tomorrow, Friday February 13th.
Ridotto Returns with Bach Cantata Program Featuring Nina Berman and Joseph Beutel
RIDOTTO, Concerts "with a Touch of Theatre", presents: Bach at St. John’s
NSSO 2015 Young Artist Award Competition Deadline Approaching. Enter Today!
This Competition is held every two years and offers talented high school musicians cash prizes and the opportunity to perform in the June 15, 2015 concert with this high-caliber community...
State of The Union - A Celebration of American Roots Music
A collaboration between City Winery, Newport Folk Presents® and the Americana Music Association highlights American Roots Music with a series of performances scheduled through April 2015 in Chicago, Napa, Nashville...
U.S. Requires Airlines to Accommodate Musical Instruments
Tired of fighting with Gate Personnel and Cabin Attendants about where you're going to stow your violin while traveling on a plane? Have you been charged additional fees, or been...
SCMEA - Music Makes Me...
The Long Island Violin Shop is proud to support SCMEA's Advocacy Video Contest for 2014-2015.
Catch The Spirit - Revelle Products & Thomastik Infeld Spirit! Strings
The Long Island Violin Shop is proud to offer a special promotion featuring Revelle Products, and Spirit! Strings. Act now, and you'll receive...
LIVS 2014 Extended Holiday Hours Calendar
Hello LIVS Family and Friends! We want to ensure that you have every opportunity to get that something special for the one you love this holiday season. We've extended our...
Violin of the Month - John Juzek
Legend has it, John Juzek (1892-1965), a Czechoslovakian luthier who worked in Prague during the early 20th century, scoured demolition sites to find aged tone woods from ancient houses and...
Staller Center's "Orchestra to the Orchestra" Free Concert Series
We recently received a letter from the Staller Center detailing their upcoming "Orchestra to the Orchestra" program designed to introduce middle and high school age music students to the greater...
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...