Houston, the accordion concertos have landed. Look at the pedigree of serious orchestra works written for the instrument, and you’ll notice most have been performed more frequently in Europe — long ...

The Drum Honors class of 2025: This year’s newly Recommended agencies ...

The accordion is gaining worldwide popularity. Germany has declared it the instrument of the year for 2026. This versatile music maker is used across various genres, from tango to heavy metal.

The new CU Boulder Creative Futures Fellowship is designed for researchers, inventors and creators in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Federal and state innovation grants often overlook the ...

The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...

He elevated his instrument’s often-maligned reputation with deft musicianship, and by writing and commissioning a wide range of music. By Richard Sandomir Guy Klucevsek, a masterly accordion player ...

Our identities shift based on our surroundings; the landscape is an extension of our narrator’s story. This workshop aims to make intentional use of the relationship between setting and narrator in ...

The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...

Creative writing within the framework of the Anthropocene is relatively undertheorized, yet critical in a time when our current geological era is being shaped by humans. In this hybrid course, we will ...