A glass armonica, originally invented by Benjamin Franklin and revived at a recent performance at the Park Avenue Armory (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an ...

Starting tonight, a group of experimental musicians in B.C. will give a series of performances using instruments and objects made solely from glass. The project sees three musicians from Victoria's ...

SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

AS A CHILD, Jamey Turner took piano lessons. He also studied violin. But over dinner with his family, he discovered a different instrument – the wine glass. “When I heard my dad playing a stemmed ...

Alfred University will host a concert by Dennis James, a musician who will play all-glass instruments, the Franklin Armonica and Cristal Bischet, on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Miller Theater.

It was the first and only time that Dennis James smacked a celebrity. During a 1999 taping of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee,” Regis Philbin excitedly got up, strode over to James and reached for his ...

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A lively Lizzo performance called attention to historical instruments constructed out of crystal, but crystal isn’t the only odd material for making music. Made for Madison's second inauguration in ...

Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset and trumpeter Arve Henriksen seem to have enjoyed careers predicated on the continuous, never-ending search for new sounds. Isungset has incorporated, into his ...

Where: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (also Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery on Saturday, 7 p.m.) When: Tonight 7 p.m., Friday 1 p.m. Admission: $25 ($20 for AGGV members) Back in 1970, American ...