Henry Ward Beecher said, "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." For some musicians, the mother’s TALENT was also the ...

The Hal-an-Tow is filled with music and noise, to ward away bad spirits and the darkness of winter. (Image: Emma ...

The Hal-an-Tow is filled with music and noise, to ward away bad spirits and the darkness of winter. (Image: Emma Ferguson/Helston Packet) (Image: Emma Ferguson/Helston Packet) There is some suggestion ...

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is making a fresh case for Douglas Moore’s “Giants in the Earth,” a Pulitzer ...

It’s not so strange, really, that there’s  a serious opera about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. His life’s work is usually ...

Regardless, the Amati designs were the ones to beat, and Stradivari spent nearly 70 years doing just that, creating a prodigious number of instruments ... Bull, a 19th-century Norwegian ...

When a musician of Rhiannon Giddens’ stature comes to perform in your town for the first time, a celebration is in order.

The data is sketchy, but there's no doubt it's one of the most popular instruments in the world ... for his piano students in the early 19th century, and that music is still a staple for music ...

The performance brought the experimental, modernist eight-movement Quartet for the End of Time into the world and is remembered as one of the most consequential musical premieres of the 20th century.

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MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, including a poetic evening with Jim Moore, a ...

As she plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2 and her own arrangement of “Zigeunerweisen” by late 19th-century Spanish ... grinding away at their instruments, with intermittent ...