For Sierra Hull, an innocuous 2023 phone call with the creative geniuses at Gibson ultimately led to the culmination of a ...

The mandolin is a beautiful, strange, difficult instrument, tuned like a violin but with a flat, fretted fingerboard and eight strings instead of four. Played with a plectrum, it is capable of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporter. Work in NPR, USA Today, NBC, PBS NewsHour & more. Back in May, as the pandemic spread like wildfire across the U.S., the ...

LOGAN — Building the perfect mandolin is like resurrecting a tree, at least in a philosophical sense. "You're putting the wood back into a different shape, and it becomes alive again," said John ...

When it comes to provocatively suggestive titles, composers’ intentions are seldom as successfully realized as with, say, Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy” or P.D.Q. Bach’s affectionate Philip Glass parody ...