A Viola State of Mind

In most things, there are many parts. In an orchestra, it's much the same. There are your typical stringed instruments in a half-circle at the front, the woodwinds towards the middle, brass in the back, and irrepressible percussion scattered strategically about the room, lest they congregate and explode someone's ears off. And at the center of it all, (or the top right, whichever,) are the violins. They are tiny, and they are shiny, and they are...not really even that loud, but they're proud, and they're all about showing it off.