A sitar and a piano can share a stage, but they can never truly agree on a single note. One is tuned to the pure ratios of physics, the other to a grid that deliberately breaks them, and here is the ...

Kelty Greye tells The Hollywood Reporter about her melancholic rendition of the 2001 hit that she recorded three years before it landed in the DC Studios film and accepting "whether you loved it or ...

Anyone looking for a window into Mozart's soul should look no further than his vast output of sonatas. Over his short life, he composed 18 numbered piano sonatas, sonatas for four hands, 36 violin ...

The violin is a string instrument where you nurture one note at a time with your bow and fingers The violin has four strings, from lowest to highest: the G, D, A, and E strings. You rub the strings ...

Discover 25 bizarre and unique musical instruments that defy convention. From glass armonicas to water organs, explore ...

LENOX — There were moments in Joe Hisaishi’s concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Saturday that brought pangs of musical nostalgia; little memories of that kind of cymbal crash or those sorts ...

One of the biggest mistakes we make is assuming our ability to think remains constant throughout the day. It doesn’t. Our mental energy rises and falls. Yet we often choose tasks as though every hour ...

The guitarists on this list hail from all corners of the musical spectrum, but, inevitably perhaps, there is one towering name that crops up, time and time again – Rory Gallagher. Although he seems ...

Isn’t it great when crazy ideas turn out to be the best ideas? Juliana Hatfield wasn’t the first artist to think, “Hey, I’m going to make an album of covers of just one artist!” Most of those plans ...

In my previous article, I took on the challenge of 'double stops,' where you play two notes at the same time, and filled my house with the sound of a monster screaming, 'Giko-giko-giko!!' I rolled my ...

Joshua Bell plays music that people love, and if the crowds he draws are any indication, the people of San Francisco love him back. The world-class American violinist has visited the Bay Area in ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer and performer who could play and write music from the age of four! A concerto is a piece for a solo instrumentalist and orchestra. A concerto shows off ...