When musical quartet Sandbox Percussion headed into NPR's headquarters to record their recently-released Tiny Desk Concert, they brought a vibraphone and drum, but also ceramic bowls, metal pipes from ...

On Friday, Feb. 20, you can enjoy the classic silent film "The General" while two Quad Cities musicians fill the space with an improvised score and sound effects.

UCLA’s Percussion Ensemble will set the rhythm straight with an upcoming recital. Every quarter, percussion performance lecturer Theresa Dimond’s class performs in Schoenberg Hall. After a quarter ...

Samba can’t be learned from a textbook alone. Brazil’s musical tradition is best understood first-hand and up close — close enough to feel the drumbeat reverberate inside you. “ It's like an ocean of ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

REPORTER: Lark in the Morning was founded in 1974 as a mail order store by Mickie Zekley. Over the next couple of decades, Mickie and his wife Elizabeth expanded, opening three stores, and starting ...

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The style of electronic music and dance known as footwork might appear a strange bedfellow to classical music, but the Grammy-winning group Third Coast Percussion embraces the fleet-footed sound on ...