Mark Oppenheimer started a conversation over at The New Republic on whether parents ought to force their children to learn a classical instrument. He contended that, despite arguments for the ...

Bogányi writes on the piano’s promotional website that he is following in the footsteps of the great Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt, who worked with 19 th-century piano manufactures to ...

As the Classical period took over in the mid-1700s and the Baroque era was winding down, a few defining characteristics emerged. Where the music of the Baroque period was ordered, efficient and ...

Since the 1840s, when the saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax, the wind instrument named after him has become a key component of jazz groups ranging from big bands to small combos. It was also a ...

In the shadow of Lahore's centuries-old Badshahi Mosque, Zohaib Hassan plucks at the strings of a sarangi, filling the streets with a melodious hum and cry. Remarkable for its resemblance to the human ...

He single-handedly elevated a 100-string instrument little known outside Kashmir into a prominent component of Hindustani classical music. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an ...