Even though his works have been lost in time, Lasus is remembered as an innovator and a revolutionary artistic figure. He is believed to be one of the main personalities who transformed the dithyramb, ...

Have you ever wondered what music might have sounded like thousands of years ago, during the height of the Greek and Roman empires? Thanks to a groundbreaking new study by architecture professor Dan C ...

For many years, music scholars in China and Japan tried unsuccessfully to decipher ancient musical notations that looked a bit like Chinese characters. They found the key to the puzzle in the city of ...

Barbara Hannigan is fearless in the face of new music. The Canadian soprano has sung the world premiere of over 100 new works, and last year released a recording of songs by the contemporary American ...

To open our 20th-anniversary celebration, we look to Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music. Before we hear them in our own studio later in the hour, it's the famous Air from Bach's ...

The Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California, is astonishing. From the outside, it appears as though a spaceship decided to land on the banks of Lake Merritt, while the interior reminds ...

Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their ...