From American-made Martin acoustic guitars in Pennsylvania to handcrafted ceremonial gongs in Thailand, we traveled the world to uncover the stories behind how different musical instruments are made.

The Lithuanian composer, now based in New York, creates layered, deliberate music that she hopes will grant listeners the ...

From playing clarinets used in Mozart’s time to reconstructing instruments from paintings, period musicians are recreating history for modern audiences.

Most savant skills encompass a memory component—and not memory to the tune of “I’m good with names and dates” but memory to ...

Over 90 musicians from leading ensembles like the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera converge in Staunton.

The documentary from Dennis Harvey and Lars Lovén, world premiering in the Locarno Critics' Week, tunes into songs from The ...

The Ondes Martenot was first popularized way back in 1928. This entry on our list of bizarre electronic instruments, invented by one Maurice Martenot, was a type of monophonic keyboard. It’s not ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 20, 2025, Section B, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Dan Storper, 74, Who Gathered and Shared Music From Around the World.