On paper, combining the musical influences of West Africa, America and Asia can appear a bit overwhelming. That's not the case at all on Royal Hartigan's Ancestors. The pianist/percussionist's trilogy ...

Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.

Two decades of research into his family's place in Hawaiian history inspired a Michigan Tech professor of music to create the tone poem "Kalaupapa" — his first musical composition. Researchers often ...

Lara Downes sits down with the brilliant jazz harpist to discuss the power of female lineage in the worlds of jazz and classical music. The day before filming this conversation, I performed the Piano ...

Spotify users can now plug Ancestry DNA results into the music streaming service to create genetics-based playlists that include music from the cultures of their ancestors. Jenny Kane AP If you’ve ...

The day before filming this conversation, I performed the Piano Concerto by pioneering African American composer Florence Price with The Philadelphia Orchestra in its concert hall recently renamed ...