Like many of us, Toronto Symphony Orchestra Viola Diane Leung turns to music in times of stress. In the last year, while not able to spend time in a concert hall with 90 of her fellow TSO members, ...

It’s late autumn — viola time. The viola should perhaps be the instrument of summer. Its tone suggests sumptuous ripeness from the top of its range to bottom. But falling between the violin’s soaring ...

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At the Library of Congress last month, Roberto Díaz was playing on an exceedingly rare viola. What didn’t cross his mind, he says, is just how much the hunk of maple and spruce clutched beneath his ...