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 ...

When you think of classical music, you might imagine a tune from Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," or one of Mozart's piano concertos. These works are considered foundational to the European classical ...

Tigran Hamasyan won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition in 2006, but the music that resonates even deeper for him is centuries removed — and a sound world away — from jazz. In ...

Studies of ancient Chinese civilization have been progressively prevalent in China in recent years. Variety shows such as The Nation's Greatest Treasures and National Music Gala have set off a new ...

Read Anthony Kuhn's essay about modern variations on China's traditional themes. For many years, music scholars in China and Japan tried unsuccessfully to decipher ancient musical notations that ...

Namazbek Uraliev (left) and Sylvian Roy find a common language Artists trying to preserve Europe's ancient music traditions have gathered at the St. Chartier Festival in central France for the past 30 ...

Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

The Libyans are actually Israelis. But Yaniv Raba and Yankale Segal have carved a singular pop niche by reimagining ancient Libyan-Jewish sacred hymns, or piyutim, as worldbeat anthems. With their ...