Folk music is in vogue today. However, when Chris Norman -- one of its most compelling proponents and a force behind its revival -- was starting out 20 years ago, traditional music, as it is called in ...

A box set that includes over nine hours of one musician's output could be considered indulgent. Indulgent yes, unless that musician's last name is Parker. Certainly the family of Parker we're talking ...

When Lydia Swystun travels to your home, she doesn't come alone. Almost permanently attached to her hip is a bag containing a dozen flutes of various sizes and styles. Her extensive collection of ...

Felix Skowronek, a professor of flute at the University of Washington since 1968 and a founding member of the Soni Ventorum Woodwind Quintet, died Monday night of throat cancer. He was 70. "He was the ...

He raises the hollowed block of wood to his lips, draws a breath and then exhales. An F-sharp hovers in the morning air and then vanishes. It’s called “first breath,” Kent Bush says. Many flutes come ...

Christina Jennings continues to marvel at the deep, existential roots of the flute. It’s an instrument that has long been part of the human creative process, stretching all the way back to the ...

Do you have a favorite instrument? If so, how does hearing that instrument make you feel? Happy? Calm? Maybe it just makes you want to get up and dance! In today’s story we’ll hear about an instrument ...

BUYEO COUNTY, South Chungcheong — A bamboo flute that offers a rare clue to the soundscape of the Baekje Dynasty (18 B.C. to A.D. 660) some 1,400 years ago was unearthed at the site of the royal ...