The Technique and Theory of Improvisation is a concise but comprehensive guide to (1) the technique (articulation, vibrato, and breathing), and (2) the theory (rhythm, melody and harmony) that are ...

It’s pretty rare that someone gets to be the lead guest on a late-night talk show when they’re promoting an ambient instrumental album, but it’s also pretty rare that one of the greatest, most popular ...

Does music have to have rhythm? Are leaves rustling in the breeze music? How might a spoken word poem inspire a composer? The 20 Princeton students in the new course "The Improvising Ensemble" are ...

In collaboration with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Penn Museum hosted a conversation between flutist and composer Emi Ferguson, harpist Ashley Jackson, and John Hopkins Assyriology ...

AKRON, Ohio - Andre 3000 is on tour playing shows for the first time in a decade. But if you look at any online setlist repository, nearly every date on the “New Blue Sun Tour” has been left blank, ...

A bamboo tube with a few holes, the bansuri seems to be a simple instrument. But looks can deceive. In the hands of a skilled artist, the flute is an integral part of the classical music of northern ...

Six innovative musicians immersed in Toronto's improvising community, dedicated to the art of improvisation will perform in different setups exploring musical boundaries and potentialities of ...

Charanga del norte is a 12-piece UK-based Charanga band playing Cuban/Latin dance music - consisting of violins, flute, bass, piano, coro singers, timbales, guiro and congas. Sue Miller (Charanga Del ...