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'EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Violinist Joshua Bell on HBO & Mendelssohn's Octet; D.C. Metro & Bach's Concertos

With his Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority mulligan miles behind him, Joshua Bell is Skyping with me from his suite at the Ritz-Carlton, Dubai. As per usual when talking to the press, the world's greatest living violinist is in between rehearsals. Yes, Bell has traveled to the United Arab Emirates to perform Felix Mendelssohn's 'Violin Concerto' in E minor, Op. 64 at the Royal Opera House Muscat with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields--the storied British band, founded by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958, that Bell remains the only American to have led as both music director and conductor.

By Logan K. Young

'Seven Years Later, Joshua Bell Performs Again for D.C. Audiences at Most Recent Union Station Performance

Just seven years after his D.C. metro debut, Joshua Bell took to the Union Station stop for a similar social experiment--however, this time he would be far from ignored.

By Ian Holubiak
'Out of the Family: Hasidic Girl Group Bulletproof Stockings Ban Men, Perform in New York City

Living in Williamsburg, the turf is divided accordingly. About a stone's throw in any direction lay neighborhoods strewn with Hasidic Jews, a population that is forever expanding from some 73,000 people and on. I've always wondered "do any of them play around town? If so, where?"

By Ian Holubiak

'EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Violinist Joshua Bell on HBO & Mendelssohn's Octet; D.C. Metro & Bach's Concertos

'Seven Years Later, Joshua Bell Performs Again for D.C. Audiences at Most Recent Union Station Performance

'Out of the Family: Hasidic Girl Group Bulletproof Stockings Ban Men, Perform in New York City

'Evgeny Kissin "Unforgettable" in Concert of Jewish Music and Poetry at Kennedy Center, Writes Post's Anne Midgette

'Glenn Greenwald, Barton Gellman, Luke Harding: Who Writes the Book for Edward Snowden's Musical?

'Quickies: Äuro Å½ivkoviÄ‡ Wins Grawemeyer, Maria Callas Google Doodle, Milla Jovovich in 'Cymbeline,' Ballerina Shannon Harkins, Siberian Ice Drums

'William P. Gottlieb's Multiple Exposures from the Golden Age of Jazz [PHOTOS]

'Five Quickies: Jackie Evancho Carnegie Christmas, Deborah Voigt Out for 'Tristan,' Seiji Ozawa In for Jazz, World's Favorite Orchestra, Online Dating Instruments

'Five Quickies: American Orchestral Crisis, MacArthur Grants Increase, M.I.T.'s Futuristic Opera, Tchaikovsky's Wrong Note, Six Hours of John Zorn at 60

'That's What She Sang

'Pearls Before Breakfast: If Valentina Lisitsa Plays In The Eurostar, But No One Knows It's Her, Did She Make A Sound?