Classical guitarist and lute player Julian Bream has died at home aged 87. The musician's representatives, James Brown Management, confirmed the news in a statement on their website. It said: 'We are ...
The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’ ...
The minimalist composer and collaborator with Jim Jarmusch is electrifying a 24-string relic — and scandalizing classical ...
Jozef Van Wissem wants to make the lute the new electric guitar — with a pickup and a bottleneck slide ...
Galvin Recital Hall will soon transcend time and become a 16th century French court — minus the wigs and corsets. Alongside the troupe of performers, the audience will travel across centuries in the ...
Sylvius Leopold Weiss was such a stellar lute virtuoso one of his friends gave up and said, "Only Sylvius should play the lute." We'll enjoy one of his suites tonight.
He's sold more than 100 million records, received 16 Grammy Awards and even received an Oscar nomination for best song. But it seems Sting hasn't let fame get to his head. The veteran musician was ...
Taking a stroll off the beaten path of the classics finds us listening to rarely heard music for the lute -- and its Arabic precursor, the oud. From a performance in the NPR studios, lutenist ...
Last year around this time, Ronn McFarlane and Carolyn Surrick, who are usually quite busy with their early music ensembles, had the time and space to finally make music together. That special musical ...