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Violins: Stories That Pull at Your Heart Strings

4/24/2014

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Artifacts connected to storytelling and writing is my theme for our Blogging A-Z Challenge. Letter V was going to be my biggest challenge but has turned out to be my treasure. We are musicians in my family  and music appreciation flows through our veins. I decided to uncover what ever I could find of interest related to violins but what I discovered were rich, heart wrenching stories related to violins and their players. It is my hope that storytellers utilize music in any fashion into their tales. I know that in our Texas elementary schools, we introduce the recorder, a musical instrument to 4th and 5th graders and then invite 5th graders to join our youth orchestras. This alone tells me that our youth are multitalented and should share their talents as often as possible - not just in concert performances. 
 I invite you to hear the violin's melodic sounds through these stories. 

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WWII and the Prison Camp Violin
The Violin: A True Story from the Holocaust
Father's Business by Victor Walter
A Violin With Three Strings
Wonderful Bibliography of a range of books that include violin playing (Kinder through adult)
Titanic violin authenticated as genuine - Here's a springboard to get your story written about the band members who played to the very end on the sinking Titanic!
All that's there is varnish and glue
On a box of wood and strings.
Yet with hairs on a stick, a select few
Manipulate these ordinary things,
For composers beyond compare.
Both impelled by an inner goal
To pluck sounds from the air,
And give voice to the human soul.

Sandy Marcus

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