Experts have unlocked secrets hidden for two hundred years in a beautiful navigational chart made for 18th century seafarers negotiating the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The paper scroll is evidence ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

Serenity now! One of the world's most “transcendent” players teams up with a neuroscientist on pipe organ for an album of ...

A breezy cornflower blue printed maxidress, with its dual neck-holes and tie details, looked just about pitch perfect for the ...

Six Staten Island’s violin students landed themselves an invitation to play at the Carnegie Hall School for “Strings for the ...

The Stony Brook University Orchestra held its final concert for the semester on April 28 at the Staller Center for the Arts. Seventy students made up the ensemble, including a mix of students majoring ...

Angine de Poitrine don't abide by the usual rules of Western music, using their own custom-built guitar to strike notes that ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

Hello! I'm just a medical student. Well, last time I delivered a spin-off titled "History Mystery of the British Royal Family (Henry VIII)," but starting from this lecture, we are entering the "final ...

The sun is one of the most studied objects in the history of science. The ancient Babylonians and Chinese tracked sunspots and solar eclipses, etching their observations into clay tablets; these ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The long string instrument, which was created by Ellen Fullman, is 60 feet long and features 44 bronze strings stretched ...