NEARLY 800 YEARS AGO, Sundiata Keita founded the largest and greatest kingdom in West African history: the Mali Empire. At its height, around 1300, it stretched for some 2,000 kilometers west to east, ...

It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

, is a brooding rumble of sound. It's the kind of music that says dinosaurs could crash through the windows at any second. But that's not why it had members of the West Houston Concert Band on the ...

It’s the season for giving, and Stephens Auditorium is extending a helping hand to aspiring young musicians. For the second year, Stephens is holding a Used Instrument Drive. Donated instruments will ...

Composer Miya Masaoka has started playing the "Laser Koto," a futuristic version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, the Koto, that's been around since the 8th century. Masaoka outfitted ...

Archaeologists excavating ruins in Dahwa, Oman, found a “rare” 4,000-year-old pair of cymbals likely buried as a ritual offering. Photo from Antiquity While sifting through the ruins of an ancient ...

Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

Do you have an old horn around that you don't really give a toot about anymore? That instrument may be just what is needed to help a Beaver Dam elementary school student develop a lifelong love of ...

Sarah Starbuck is an educator at Thornton Middle School. At her school, she witnesses first hand what the decline in funding for education does for programs like music. “[It] adversely affects kids ...