Certain musical instruments are becoming ‘endangered’ as children turn away from them to other, more popular, ones. The French horn, double bass and trombone are being neglected, according to a recent ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture with Samuel Nemeth, PhD candidate in the Department of Music, Tuesday, Nov. 1, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark ...

In April 1945, Madame Roos wrote a letter to French authorities describing her piano she was hoping to get back. Roos, who was 72, was Jewish and her piano had been stolen when Nazis emptied her ...

A French association is helping set up orchestras for disadvantaged kids in towns and rural areas. And the results are striking. Funded by private sponsors and local government, Orchestre à l'école ...

The president of a nationwide chain of musical instrument stores says a whole new twist on D-Day is coming to Quebec next June. That's when the province has promised to crack down on product labelling ...

The son of a French executioner, Fernand Meyssonnier built a model guillotine in his early teens and followed his father into the profession during the last years of colonial rule in Algeria. He ...

Sometimes, the records of unassuming objects preserve curious stories. Over the past year, while trying to find out more about a small portable sundial in the museum's collection, curator Peggy ...