While in school, Benny got a job as a violin player with the Barrison Theater, the local vaudeville house.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Rudolf found it hard to believe that there was someone in the world who did not know what violin was.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

She studied music at Florida State University and later moved to New York City to study violin and composition.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

He did not look much interested in the violin itself but in the whole person of Rudolf, his violin and his work.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

His "Red Violin" concerto was developed from music that he wrote for the movie of the same name.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

In one show, he was chosen more for his funny jokes than for his skill with the violin.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

However,he did not become seriously interested in music until he heard another boy playing the violin in a concert at his school.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

As a young man, Jack Benny played violin in a vaudeville theater in his home state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

"Matt is one of my very good friends, so I did it as a friend, but also because I love playing the violin."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

He and Zelman Bokser, the school's violin teacher, were helping students prepare for the famous Carnegie Hall.

VOA: special.2011.07.11

Benny was such a good violin player that,for a time, he wanted to become a musician.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

He had no other books. As a violin player, Rudolf had no time to read much either, but then he lived in the cities.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Or a mandolin,or a fiddle or whatever. And some kids come with years of classical violin lessons or Suzuki violin or school orchestra lessons.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

Here he would give a violin concerts and earned money to buy food and clothes.

VOA: special.2010.05.08