Composer Bright Sheng has won MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. Two decades ago, Chamber Music Northwest was looking for a new chamber opera. David Shifrin, the nonprofit's artistic director and a ...

The Shanghai Quartet has just come out with a new recording of traditional Chinese folk songs, arranged for string Quartet. We hear "Mountain Song, "Dragon Lantern Tune," and "Puzzle Tune." ...

The 1970s. What a decade for music! It was a wild, experimental, and incredibly fertile period that saw genres explode, artists push boundaries, and hit after hit cascade from radios across the globe.