Rhiannon Giddens is a musical polymath. As someone who started out studying opera vocals, she’s best known for her skills as ...

Experts explain when it’s time to break out a new set, how environmental factors play their part, and what you can do to make ...

From gaming arenas and art galleries to historic sites and cultural museums, Hawaiʻi offers plenty of indoor activities to explore, learn and have fun while staying comfortable during the summer heat.

Aston Magna returns to Great Barrington with four concerts featuring Bach, Vivaldi and lesser-known Baroque composers, ...

After an uncharacteristically long break of 13 months since their last studio LP, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have ...

Finally, explanations for things you never stopped to think about twice.

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

For Vickey Sasser, every dulcimer tells the story of Appalachia and America. The mountain dulcimer, a string instrument popular in American folk music, first appeared in America in the early 19th ...

Small string instruments pack an outsized musical punch. They slip into a backpack, travel easily, and still deliver rich tone that can fill a room or cut through a noisy session. Yet many players ...

It’s midnight in the middle of nowhere on the Trans-Siberian Railway but sleep is far from mind. Russian train-riders are gathered in the bar car, laughing and dancing around the ragtag string band ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

A University of Maryland art teacher is striking a chord with people through musical chairs — not the game, but pieces of art made from plastic lawn chairs and harp strings. Dan Ortiz Leizman admitted ...