“Sound Formations: Artist, Musician, Instrument Maker,” an exhibition at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, is showcasing handcrafted musical instruments that can also be appreciated as works of art.

Musical instruments are taking on new identities as pieces of art through the efforts of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and offering them to the public. The Art of Music is a fundraiser that has ...

This is the second article in "The Art of Listening" series. Last week, I started a series about listening to music. It’s an everyday activity, but something that often gets overlooked, ...

Dendê Macêdo plays a berimbau made from a broom, a bell, a coconut and a spring during a performance of his Recycled Sounds workshop at St. Edmond’s Home for Children. Dendê Macêdo drove his silver ...

IT TAKES ABOUT 250 hours to build a violin. The process begins with some choice cuts of maple and spruce, and — if all goes according to plan — ends with a beautiful piece of handicraft that is also a ...

If you had no idea what “music” was, and you came upon “Treasures: Legendary Musical Instruments,” this special exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum here, you would still know that something ...

"I don't think of them as individual pieces," he said. "I'm not thinking about the rim, the neck, this and that. I think of the entire instrument as a whole and how, aesthetically and compositionally, ...

Instrument makers from around New England will be front and center at this year's Lowell Folk Festival celebrating the art & craft that goes into making the unique sounds that come from the Festival's ...