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 ...

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 ...

At a church in the heart of London the soft tinkle of a guqin, or ancient zither, rings out. The audience at the London International Chinese Music festival (pictured) is told that the sound of this ...

Robert Philip surveys the vast sweep of a vast subject in “A Little History of Music.” Beginning with the earliest evidence of musicmaking—a bone flute from 40,000 years ago—the English broadcaster ...

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 ...

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 ...

American violinist Ariana Kim visits India to explore Carnatic music The violin has a storied place in so much of European classical music. But sometime in the 17th century, it began to intrigue ...

Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their ...

Ro Cham Tih is not just a village artisan - he is now a “cultural envoy” bringing the voice of the highlands to the world. Along the lush Truong Son mountains and the deep green Sesan River, artisan ...