When instrumental music moved from teahouse to concert hall in the mid twentieth century, musicians became aware of the need to rearrange traditional repertoire to satisfy the new ticket-buying public. Short pieces were lengthened by adding...

The term ‘Chinese music’ (Zhongguo yinyue) is used primarily to designate instrumental music, though sometimes it is used more broadly to include folk-song and other minor vocal genres. Opera music (Xiqu) and narrative song (quyi), however,...

Before the twentieth century, a dichotomy prevailed between cultivated music, by educated, formally trained musicians and composers, and folk music, performed by everyone else. Cultivated music was created by and for the upper classes, and was taught...

Folk music can have a number of different meanings,...

Club Passim is not only financially healthy, it is expanding: Soon, it'll be part club, part school, part archive. With a renewed lease from Harvard Real Estate, new office and classroom space on the third floor of 47 Palmer St. in Cambridge...

New ideas highlight this fall's folk lineup. There are familiar bookings such as "Prairie Home Companion" monologist Garrison Keillor and Maine balladeer Gordon Bok, but also some intriguing departures. Foremost among these is the Phil Ochs Song Night, a tribute to the protest...

Architect Frank Gehry will design a set for a performance by Portuguese fado singer Mariza later this year.Gehry, renowned for his stunning and daring urban visions, has agreed to create a taverna-inspired stage for Mariza's performance in October at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.The melding...

John Stewart recorded some of pop music's most acclaimed solo albums, helping create a style that came to be called Americana, but he was always best known for writing the Monkees' enduring hit "Daydream Believer."Stewart, who came to prominence in the 1960s as a member...