The Telluride Bluegrass Festival launched in 1974 as an out-of-the-way town party for locals on the Fourth of July. A year ...

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

For Vickey Sasser, every dulcimer tells the story of Appalachia and America. The mountain dulcimer, a string instrument popular in American folk music, first appeared in America in the early 19th ...

Kayla Wallace is a Canadian actor. She is best known for her role on the Paramount Plus series Landman (2024), ABC's The Good Doctor (2017), NBC's Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2021), and Hallmark ...

Protected areas, such as national parks and nature reserves, form part of a strategy to preserve biodiversity, but how effective they are within and outside their boundaries is not always clear. In ...

Composer Gyorgy Ligeti lives in Vienna, his home a modernist oasis of tranquillity perched above the lush greenery of the Wienerwald. He turned 80 this year; he is physically frail, but his mind is as ...

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How do you introduce planet Earth to an alien race? That was the question scientist Carl Sagan tried to answer in the late 1970s. His work would ultimately become the Golden Record, a copy of which ...

In many ways, music and emotion almost seem interchangeable. But what if you had never heard Western music before. Would these songs still make you feel the same way? Scientists at McGill University ...