Tan, a computer science graduate who doesn’t play the violin, once co-owned a music school and helped in his family’s food business. In 2010, a trip to China to restore an old violin sparked his ...

CHICAGO — An online connection led to a special commission between a Chicago-area musician and the first known Black woman violin-maker in the country. “I had never ever considered the hands that ...

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