Western music

...the gayageum sounds completely different from its cousins. The instrument dates to the sixth century, and can play microtones not found in Western music scales. Ju has been playing the instrument for 16 of her 28 years. She's sharing her...

In this article: Olympia, Korea, Seattle, Tacoma, and University of Washington in Seattle

...performances happening Sunday promises an atmosphere different from the Factory, where quarterly reviews are staged. An Evening of Western Music Cost: $10 High Rollers, The Atomic Three, Mad Dog & The Smokin' J's Date & Time: November...

In this article: Tucson and St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church

...with Oklahoma band Green Corn Revival You would never think that alt-country would be in need of revitalization here in the Mecca of Western music. But with a shortage of true Americana bands, cowpunkers Green Corn Revival are...

In this article: Black Flag, Greg Ginn, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma band

...pained smile (to be fair, the performance had been billed: "Yusuf, featuring his new musical Moonshadow") Yusuf, who turned his back on Western music on his conversion to Islam in 1977, eventually reappears, to further heckles in the...

In this article: Specials, Dublin, Tricky, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and Cat Stevens

...under the baton of Huang Yijun - until the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966 and they all came under attack for playing "bourgeois" Western music. Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong, worked with composers to create eight "model...

In this article: Shanghai, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, China, San Diego Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Europe, and Far East

...Shanghai family of musicians and composers in 1964, Yu had to suffer the privations of Chairman Mao Zedong's virtual liquidation of Western music and intellectual history in the country during the Cultural Revolution. To study Western...

In this article: Long Yu, Shanghai, Yuja Wang, Beijing, Lang Lang, Toronto, China Philharmonic, China, and New England

...Revolution, a decadelong period of social and political madness that led to the persecution of families deemed "capitalist" and a ban on Western music. "I remember the Red Guards came and burned music in our garden," Yu said. Still, as...

In this article: Long Yu, China, China Philharmonic, Shanghai, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Europe, Beijing, Berlin, and Vatican City

...Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic/Music (IRCAM). Maestro Boulez ranks among the most notable leaders of postwar Western music, with profound artistic influence. In the early years of his career, he contributed to both...

In this article: Kyoto Prize, University of San Diego, Institute for Research, Olivier Messiaen, Paris, and Japan

...and frivolity. But blending cultures in music is now natural to Hafez Nazeri, 30, who moved to the U.S. 10 years ago and where he's studied Western music, collaborated with American artists and fallen in love with New York City. Even...

In this article: Shahram Nazeri, Iran, Hafez Nazeri, Hafez, New York City, Los Angeles, YouTube, Associated Press Writer, and Rumi