Audio for this feature is no longer available. Her new CD, released Sept. 21, is an unusual pairing of two concertos -- one warhorse and one freshly minted -- which may, on the surface, seem like ...

Violinist Tessa Lark takes flight in Sky, a violin concerto written just for her by Michael Torke. Inspired by her Kentucky roots, Torke weaves a touch of Bluegrass into the classical form, ...

Actress Sakina Jaffrey, a Nyack resident, is understandably proud of her father, Sanford Allen, who, at age 23, became the first full-time African-American musician to join the New York Philharmonic.

(CBS News) As I'm known to do from time to time, I'm going to go ahead and break out a music post separate from my Friday music round-up. Why you ask? I don't know. Because I feel the need for a ...

An exclusive premiere of the composer's new EP, which meditates on the idea of "singing along with one's vacuum cleaner." His newest work takes on similar themes. The four-movement Drones and Violin, ...

Following in the tradition of epic violin concertos of 19th Century European composers, Mark O'Connor created his own, as vast as this country. We'll enjoy his Fiddle Concerto during our music today ...

It begins with the Hungarian violin virtuoso Jelly d’Arányi, for whom Bartók, Ravel, Vaughan Williams, and others composed notable concert works. Off the concert stage, she gained notoriety as a ...

It’s a thought we've all had in our more reflective moments: “If my hair were long enough, could a performance artist braid it into thin strands, cover it in glue, thread it into the fingerboard of a ...