Brendan Slocumb remembers that moment that classical music just clicked for him. BRENDAN SLOCUMB: The first piece of classical music that I heard was Mozart's "Symphony No. 40." (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Any music act with a unique sound — such as Black Violin’s fusion of classical music and hip-hop — is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing a ...

Polemic rarely works in fiction, and that's for a very good reason: Fiction begets empathy, and polemic encourages attack. But in his debut thriller The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb employs ...