“There is so much beautiful folk music in China,” says Suli Xue, founder of Pacific Harmony String Quartet, which performs in Benaroya Hall Saturday. “But I don’t play those instruments.” The ...

As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...

In a special music program on viols -- the early Western string instrument similar to today's viola da gamba -- early music specialist Phillip Serna performed the song Monday at Benjamin Franklin ...

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The very first Western Strands String Fest is set to bring a lively atmosphere to Belmullet this weekend. Running from Friday, November 1 to Sunday, November 3, the three-day festival celebrates the ...

Clockwise from top right: San Francisco's Del Sol String Quartet will join performers from the National Gugak Center, who will play traditional Korean instruments like gayageum, piri, and saenghwang.

Western instruments have long been part of Carnatic music’s landscape. The violin is credited as one of the earliest to be adapted into Carnatic concerts in the early 19th century by Baluswami ...