“There is so much beautiful folk music in China,” says Suli Xue, founder of Pacific Harmony String Quartet, which performs in Benaroya Hall Saturday. “But I don’t play those instruments.” The ...

YEOJU, Gyeonggi Province — There can be a perfect performance but never a perfect instrument, said Choi Tae-gwi, a traditional musical Korean instrument artisan. He has been making traditional ...

Concert violinist Vadim Gluzman plays an original Stradivarius violin, made in 1690 in Northern Italy. It was the violin played by Leopold Auer (it is known as the “Auer” Stradivarius) for whom ...

FLINT, MI -- The legacy of a slain journalist will be music on Sunday as the Flint Jewish Federation brings Daniel Pearl World Music Day to the University of Michigan-Flint. Event chair Michael Thorp ...

STOCKBRIDGE -- For the 40 youngsters in the Kids 4 Harmony string-instrument program at Pittsfield's Morningside Community School, the chance to rehearse classical pieces and perform them publicly ...