violinists

Reiji, a gifted young violinist, hopes success will allow him to remove his little sister from an abusive home, but before he can achieve fame, he must receive special training from Mitsuko, a woman who was once a prodigy herself before an accident robbed her of the ability to play.

Thirteen-year-old Katya convinces her parents to try homeschooling her for a month, but while she is finally excited about learning--and about Milo, the violin prodigy who lives nearby--not everything works out as she had hoped.

Tess, a violin prodigy who has been playing since age three, throws away all her training and talent to start a new life with her father in Montana, where she realizes having a normal life isn't always so normal.

When teen violinist Cassie's moody father destroys her beloved violin in a fit of anger, she runs away, only to later learn of her father's abusive upbringing, which convinces her to attempt to repair their relationship.

Presents the life of the talented violinist whose bout with polio left him disabled but still determined to pursue his love of music and the violin.

Presents the life and times of the celebrated cellist who modernized cello technique and firmly established the cello as a concert instrument.

When Cassie's grandfather falls ill, she and her mother return to his farm, where Cassie discovers a wonderful, terrible secret about her family.

Ben, who manages to grab some practice on his violin between chores at his Uncle Henry's business at Cooks Landing, gets a job fixing the grand old cottage on Pine Island and meets Ruth, a rich, cultured woman from New York who introduces Ben to a new, more liberating world until a storm on Lake Muskoka changes everything.