The nine colorful movements of "The Pismirist's Congeries" (2006), for flute (Alex Sopp), violin, cello and piano, describe items in a collection of curiosities, among them a bird-training whistle, an ancient Greek censer and a pianist's finger-exercising machine.
A vocalist, pianist and guitarist, Ms. Pipoyan sets ancient Armenian texts to original music, sings elegant interpretations of coarse village songs and writes new lyrics and music inspired by these traditions.
Composer and pianist Wang Lu was born in Xi'an, the ancient capital of China.
A 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, composer and pianist Wang Lu was born in Xi'an, the ancient capital of China.
"With Paul, there was always that ground rhythm, that ancient jazz beat lurking in the background," said the pianist Ethan Iverson, one of the younger bandleaders who played with and learned from him toward the end.
The Leipzigers' new recording of "Rhapsody in Blue" and the Piano Concerto in F features the ancient orchestra's current music director, Riccardo Chailly, and pianist Stefano Bollani.
It took me to tracks as straight up beautiful as Completion, which premieres the forthcoming Ancient Future album, a blissful, ambient collaboration between glitchy San Francisco multimedia artist Christopher Willits and Japanese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Mr. McKnight is intrigued by the crossover between jazz and classical music and bonded with the pianist André Watts over Mr. Watts's disclosure that his iPod playlist includes gagaku, an ancient Japanese court music.
In his new YouTube video, programmer, jazz pianist, and self-described "jack of all trades," Nick Lee, uses an emulator called Mini vMac to run ancient Apple software on his just-updated to watchOS 2.0 device.
(Chinen) ★ David Virelles and Continuum (Friday through Sunday) A freethinking young Cuban pianist, Mr. Virelles released one of last year's best and most intriguing albums: "Continuum" (Pi), an ever-shifting amalgam of ancient folklore and avant-garde protocol.
