The first time I heard Rahsaan Roland Kirk was in the winter of 1972. A friend was playing his newly-released record titled Blacknuss. It was a ...

In a harsh world, few traditions are more civilized than afternoon tea. Every year, my friends and I celebrate the holidays ...

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It goes without saying that Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the best animated fantasy series of our lifetime. The Emmy Award-winning Nickelodeon exclusive follows Aang, a long-lost Avatar and ...

Over the years, there's been a decline in the manufacture of musical instruments in the U.S. A large portion come from overseas. Now, tariffs are causing a big jump in costs for music stores. Most of ...

In his workshop overlooking the Austrian town of Dornbirn, Elmar Kalb usually designs and creates objects that many other carpenters also make: benches, tables, chairs, wooden trays and bookshelves.

SAN ANTONIO — The flute might be a common woodwind instrument sometimes forgotten in crowded bands and orchestras. But for Rachel Woolf, it represents a one-woman symphony of determination, inflected ...

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Shabaka Hutchings, going by just Shabaka for his performance at the Walker Art Center on Thursday, strolled up to the microphone to kick off his set and told the crowd the “enjoy the vibrations.” ...

Time changes all things—even “immortal” music. The notes Beethoven put down on paper are the same notes today, but the instruments Beethoven wrote them for are not the same instruments. He wrote for ...

This post was updated Jan. 30 at 10:09 p.m. Two UCLA faculty members are reveling in the recognition of a colleague’s Grammy-nominated work. Catherine Gregory, a flutist and lecturer at the UCLA Herb ...

The Mayborn Museum was filled with the harmonious sounds of native flutes for over an hour on Wednesday as a Waco local put on a concert in honor of Native American Heritage Month. Sandi Horton was ...