The melodic tones of a lacquered violin and cello that survived the New Year’s Day earthquake on the Noto Peninsula resonated ...
Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument of choice is a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello. But you can’t accompany a Mongolian long song on a Strad. For that, you need a morin khuur. It has a long thin neck, a trapezoidal ...
We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Two-time Grammy winner Rodney Crowell arrives at the historic Opera House in ...
While working on her doctoral thesis, cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas remembers chancing on a 1932 letter from Rabindranath Tagore to his granddaughter. There is an instrument, he says, that he prefers ...
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. THERE'S a funny scene in the Woody Allen film Take the Money and Run in which the neurotic hero, ...