Student musicians from all 10 County public high schools came together on Saturday to collaborate and perform at the annual All-County High School Music Festival. The event program listed 158 students ...

Musical instruments are the musician's soul. When a violin or an oud goes out of tune or a piano loses its luster, it can ...

Let’s not waste any time here. Paste staff and contributors came together to build a definitive ranking of the greatest guitarists of all time. Here are 150 icons, forgotten heroes, and the best and ...

This interview was published in Arts & Ideas, a publication by The Martha’s Vineyard Times, in 2024. After the tragic news of John Forté’s death at the start of 2026, we wanted to republish the piece ...

Magnets keep strings suspended without anchor points, and pushing a magnet piece bends notes, so you get expressive sounds with simple moves.

Where Pauses Speak, Melodies Breathe. Silence is a cornerstone of Gustavo Santaolalla's music. A silence so loaded with meaning because of how and where it arises in his compositions that“sometimes it ...

Haimovitz, 50, along with frequent collaborator, pianist and former host of NPR’s “From the Top,” Christopher O’Riley, 69, think they may have decoded Bach’s true sound at long last through intensive ...

Without any formal musical training, he built China’s first jazz band and a song-and-dance troupe, defying gender norms while launching the country’s earliest music and film superstars. His ...

But when John Koeninger picks up a guitar, his brain goes into overdrive. Gears turning, he’s analyzing tension, vibration, resonance, the physics that transform energy into sound. In retirement, the ...

In Jianghan district of Wuhan, Hubei province, Wu Youquan, an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional guqin making, has spent over two decades transforming himself from a timber ...

Seine region, the Seine Musicale is offering a wonderful musical getaway to mark the start of the Year of the Horse. The upco ...

While voters in Jenrick’s Newark constituency were mixed on the decision, members of the local Conservatives felt betrayed ...