AZ Central

MIM festival focuses on Italy: Classical music, history and culture

Learning about another culture is a multisensory experience at the Musical Instrument Museum. On June 4-5, guests have the chance to experience Italian culture through different styles of music, food, ...
NPR

A music director goes public with a secret stash of private instruments

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...
Washington Examiner

Prufrock: In Praise of Bing Crosby, Italy’s Oldest Musical Instrument, and the Meaningless Nobel Prize in Literature - Washington Examiner

Italy’s oldest musical instrument may have sounded like a lute…or a lyre: “The ceramic shell at first appeared to be one of a kind. One hypothesis was that it might have been a cheese strainer. Then, ...
insider.si.edu

Marvels of sound and beauty : Italian Baroque musical instruments / edited by Franca Falletti, Renato Meucci, Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni

Resounding beauties : the beauty of sound / Franca Falletti -- Mucial instrument collections in Renaissance and Baroque Italy / Renato Meucci -- Italian musical instruments in Europe : the dynamics of ...