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***Here is an interesting story about the Baghdad Symphony's struggle to create music and promote peace through their music:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=3065714&page=1

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NUTTIN' BUT STRINGS (VIOLIN DUO WITH HIP HOP BEATS)

"BROKEN SORROW"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EB321VNvPE

NUTTIN' BUT STRINGS play on Radio Disney jam

"BROKEN SORROW"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpapKnnsx2U

"Vanilla Mood" string quartet from Japan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nirc4N-ZK-M

"Vanilla Mood" string quartet from Japan play "Chuo Expressway"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cep6jzRfDXU

"Vanilla Mood" string quartet from Japan play "Day by Day"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeXylm2PjKs&mode=related&search=

BOND (string quartet with dance beats)

"Explosive" music video by BOND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf-ge421Vt8

"Bond on Bond" music performance on the WB by BOND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9jX9KVlPHE&mode=related&search=

"Duel" music video by BOND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOsJ05mWZLQ

"Viva!" music video by BOND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYzAtGT1II

"Korobushka" music video by BOND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhofip2CROI

"Victory" music video by BOND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V0mqrpY31s

"Victory" performed by BOND with violinist Andre Rieu

Victory, Bond and Andre Rieu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEL-4D8Bnas

"Eleanor Rigby" (song by The Beatles) by BOND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUB_lbYYvyM

String instrument performers listed by instrument

Violin

Itzhak Perlman

Biography of Itzhak Perlman

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Perlman

Video of Itzhak Perlman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK_RvZRG-Jk

Hillary Hahn

Hillary performing "Trail of Dead" in Moscow, Russia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy8EXFbq32k

Hilary Hahn playing part of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.1 3rd Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbvbX8iDAMY

Hillary Hahn interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy8EXFbq32k

Nigel Kennedy

Kennedy plays the second movement of Vivaldi´s Winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z--FGpVK15E

Vanessa Mae

"Storm" by Vanessa Mae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqkFgeBFTWU

"Destiny" by Vanessa Mae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eCvTx5nDDA

Mark O'Connor

Mark O' Connor, Caprice #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UfDb47H8J4

Saline Fiddlers Olympic Reel with Mark O'Connor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irYt7GHB_ZE

Viola

     William Primrose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Primrose

     Antonin Dvorak (composer)

Cello

YO YO MA

Biography of Yo-Yo Ma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_Yo_Ma

Yo Yo Ma performing as a child

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLa4zAOOpq4

Yo Yo Ma performing Brasileirinho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhtlu0jflTQ

Yo Yo Ma plays Libertango

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tMgVMxG95A

Yo Yo Ma, Elgar Cello Concerto, 1st mvmt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbdbmk_D7gA

Yo Yo Ma, Elgar Cello Concerto, 4th mvmt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djs3qYDec1k

Yo Yo Ma performs Menino with the Assad brothers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4vpqjQ8Cuo

Mischa Maisky  plays Bach's Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqT9bt7qe_c

Jacqueline du Pre (pronounced like doo pray)

Biography of Jacqueline du Pre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Du_Pre

Jacqueline du Pre performs Kol Nidrei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfhrTG0OJ64