Nicholas McCarthy overcame rejection to make a professional career playing the surprisingly vast repertoire for left-hand piano.
Category: Musical Instruments
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Does It Matter How a Cello Is Held? It’s a Centuries-Old Debate.
Historical response to the cello endpin, which anchors the instrument to the floor, has alternated between acceptance and pushback.
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Foday Musa Suso, 75, Dies; Ambitious Ambassador for West African Music
A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.
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In the Age of the Algorithm, Roots Music Is Rising
Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre.
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Charles Wadsworth, Pianist and Champion of Chamber Music, Dies at 96
As the founder, director and genial host of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he helped drive the chamber music bomb of the 1970s.
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How the Cowbell Gave Latin Music Its Swing
When life gets loud, let the rhythm get louder.
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How Japanese Engineering Transformed Pop Music
How Japanese ingenuity transformed Western music from within.
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Larry Bell’s Vast Collection of 12-String Acoustic Guitars
The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments, carefully stored in a climate-controlled room.
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Wayne Osmond, Singer and Guitarist With the Osmonds, Dies at 73
Mr. Osmond was a founding member of the family pop group, which had a slew of hits in the 1970s, including “One Bad Apple” and “Yo-Yo.”
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1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized
In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why.
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‘You Can Never Look Back’: How ’70s Rockers Rebooted for the ’80s
The year 1984 was a watershed in pop music. The stars who’d made it big the previous decade had to embrace new instruments and MTV or risk being left behind.