Added these lovely pictures of Josh. You know what? I've never seen him in such expressions. Well ... enjoy the pictures.

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Still the spittin' image of a Wunderkind although he's now pushing 40, Bell released his latest disc, "Voice of the Violin," last September. The CD takes pieces written for the human voice — opera, classical songs — and makes them sing instead from the strings of Bell's nearly 300-year-old Gibson Stradivarius.

"Voice" follows Bell's wildly successful "Romance of the Violin," which stayed at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Classical for 12 weeks and in 2003 was named Billboard's top Classical Album of the Year.

Expect Bell to play some of the "Voice of the Violin" pieces Friday at the Union. But which ones? It's anyone's guess — including Bell's.

"I like to leave a little room for spontaneity and see how I feel — maybe play a showpiece or two," he said on a recent phone interview from his home in New York. "The real meat and potatoes of the program is the Schumann (Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in A Minor) and the Beethoven (Sonata No. 10 for Violin and Piano in G major). I've never done those two together before, but I thought they'd work well.

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There's an interesting articles 'bout Joshua, read it below:

Joshua Bell | 7 Vignettes

THE CASUAL ROMANTIC

Joshua Bell and the Piedmont have history together. The first time he played in the region, in 1986, he was a budding violinist from Indiana. By his last visit, in 2002, he had risen to the top ranks of fiddlers.

Bell returns next Sunday in a different guise: as a recitalist sharing the stage with simply a pianist. Here are seven vignettes from his phone interview with classical-music critic Steven Brown.

Bell was a 17-year-old prodigy who had already performed at Carnegie Hall when the Western Piedmont Symphony brought him to Hickory. He went over so well that the orchestra invited him back two years later. The trips obviously made an impression on Bell, too: At the mention of the city, he exclaims: "Hickory!

"I have very fond memories of those crucial times in my career, when I was building my repertoire and playing with smaller orchestras, and everything was new to me. That was an exciting time. ... It's less scary (now) than when I was 18 and traveling, and getting up in front of an orchestra where they didn't know me at all, and I had to prove myself."

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