Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

This article originally appeared in New Scientist. Stef Conner is a composer, performer, and musicologist with interests straddling classical and folk genres. She is working with a group that ...

A centuries-old puzzle about the music that Ancient Greeks listened to has finally been solved, thanks to a pioneering new study. Music was an integral part of Ancient Greek culture, with the work of ...

Stef Conner is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to recreate the song music of the 2nd millennium BC We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems ...

The 1984 Olympic anthem composed by John Williams has become synonymous with the image of the modern Olympics, and for good reason. But what about the other anthems such as the classic Bugler's Dream ...

As the Academy of Ancient Music celebrates its 50th birthday, Hannah French chats to music director Laurence Cummings and CEO John McMunn about the ensemble's remarkable history. Show more The Academy ...

In an interview, she also tells tQ about the challenges of improvising and recording music made on a replica of an instrument buried with the Sutton Hoo ship in the seventh century As ever in ...

French-born composer Maurice Jarre’s career spans 50 years and a staggering 135 scores for pics as diverse as David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” “Fatal Attraction” and ...

Refiner's Fire celebrates one of the world's pioneering period-instrument ensembles, and one of the most successful recording partnerships The music critic and regular Gramophone contributor Richard ...

Blue Fasa, the latest book by Duke University Creative Writing Professor Nathaniel Mackey, is a lyrical voyage through an epic love story. Yet this epic is but a fragment of an even vaster one, “Song ...