It's not every day that you get to hear a lively discussion about a musical instrument that was once said to sound like two skeletons copulating on a roof. (SOUNDBITE OF MAHAN ESFAHANI SONG) SIEGEL: ...

Few summer evenings are as civilized as those spent at the chamber-scale Bach Festival at Grace Church in Georgetown. This annual event began in the gentlest fashion Wednesday, with a recital by ...

From the ashes he salvaged his piano tools and his wife’s Italian-made bicycle. News of the fire raised his profile — there were, after all, not many harpsichord makers at the time — and business ...