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

The National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, launches weather balloons twice a day to gather critical atmospheric data that helps meteorologists create accurate forecasts. Logan Clark, a ...

Musician Rhiannon Giddens is a modern-day Renaissance woman who trained as an opera singer before veering into folk music. She's an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. But she is first ...

Formed by siblings who grew up playing together, the Hagen Quartet is finishing a farewell tour with an unforced, casual ...

Graham Platner, who clinched the Democratic nomination in the Maine Senate race Tuesday, has been embroiled in controversies that have made Democrats uneasy about their chances to flip a seat crucial ...

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 ...

The plucked string has been singing since before history bothered to write anything down. Walk through any museum wing dedicated to ancient civilizations and you will see them: fragments of wood, bone ...

NASA’s next flagship space observatory now has a firm launch date that arrives sooner than almost anyone expected. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to lift off on August 30, 2026, ...

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