Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For centuries ...

Barbara Hannigan is fearless in the face of new music. The Canadian soprano has sung the world premiere of over 100 new works, and last year released a recording of songs by the contemporary American ...

On Friday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. the University of Maine School of Performing Arts (SPA) presented a screening of the documentary “Six Centuries, Six Years.” The film portrays the journey of Iranian ...

Have you ever wondered what music might have sounded like thousands of years ago, during the height of the Greek and Roman empires? Thanks to a groundbreaking new study by architecture professor Dan C ...

The Master Musicians of Joujouka draw on centuries of local tradition with a sound that captivated the 1950s Beatniks, the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones and fans everywhere since — FADEL SENNA A ...

To open Performance Today's 20th-anniversary celebration, we look to Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music. Before we hear them in our own studio later in the hour, it's the famous Air ...

For many years, music scholars in China and Japan tried unsuccessfully to decipher ancient musical notations that looked a bit like Chinese characters. They found the key to the puzzle in the city of ...

To open our 20th-anniversary celebration, we look to Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music. Before we hear them in our own studio later in the hour, it's the famous Air from Bach's ...

Soprano Barbara Hannigan takes the spotlight on Electric Fields, a new collaborative album inspired by the 12th-century abbess and composer Hildegard von Bingen. (Marco Borggreve) Barbara Hannigan is ...