Haden and Redman came from the world of Ornette Coleman, the Texas firebrand whose free jazz revolution had unravelled the ...

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In what is now Northern Liberties, a man created the first American-made piano. 120 years later, the first sousaphone was made in a Washington Square shop for the popular bandleader John Sousa ...

The clavichord offers a radically intimate take on music of the late Baroque. Where the harpsichord plucks the strings, the clavichord caresses them with tiny blades of brass. It was the instrument of ...

The maker of the finest U.S. harpsichords was back last week in Ypsilanti, Mich., full of happy memories. Wiry, black-haired John Chain’s had vastly enjoyed a holiday season of harpsichordery in ...

We first heard of the novel coronavirus in January 2020 as something causing a few deaths in China. But it seemed isolated at first to Asia, then it spread to Washington state. On March 11, 2020, the ...

Weston United Methodist Church invites the community to join together for a special Sunday worship gathering on Dec. 14. This week, for the first time in many years, the church’s 1912 M.P. Möller ...

HASLEMERE, where the twentyninth Haslemere Festival of Early Chamber Music was held several weeks ago, is a pretty little country town, forty-one miles from London. It is situated in a hilly, thickly ...

World Piano Day 2025, celebrated on March 29, marks the 10th anniversary of this global tribute to the piano’s rich legacy. Initiated by Nils Frahm in 2015, it promotes music appreciation, creativity, ...

It's been 33 years since her breakthrough album, "Little Earthquakes," catapulted Tori Amos to stardom. Back then, Amos was unlike anyone else on MTV — beautiful, yes, delicate, clearly, but ...