Live music can engage more than just one sense, despite it being an auditory medium. Lighting and visual effects can enhance ...

For over 35 years, Converge has remained a staple in the hardcore punk and metal scenes. Exploding out of the haunted streets of Salem, Massachusetts, the band combines the aggression of hardcore with ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

Valentine’s Day was only a week gone when the BBC Philharmonic gave us a programme on the theme of love. And the most haunting memory of it all was the gentle, song-inspired and highly original Viola ...

FF’s Malcolm Byrne wants a composer-in-residence in Leinster House, which might distract from the constant ding-donging ...

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Leo Vezina is transfixed, eyes closed, gently strumming on a semi-high-end Fender guitar at the downtown Steve’s Music Store. Though he has played with bands around town, his métier the last three ...

The ukulele is an accessible instrument that almost anyone can learn to play. It’s an enjoyable way to enter the world of music-making, with all its benefits.

The composer’s powerfully hypnotic score to Mona Fastvold’s ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ immerses you in the utopian sect’s ...

The early writing of Yinxu, the rich imagination of Sanxingdui, the echoes of the Silk Road in Dunhuang, and the elegant life of Jiangnan — Today, these traces of civilization across time and space ...

Many people turn to music as a form of medicine, a healing companion for whatever they may be facing in life. Whether it ...

Scientists don’t indulge their musical proclivities only through their lab work. Many are also musicians. Although rock and rollers like chemistry Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi often get the ...