To open our 20th-anniversary celebration, we look to Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music. Before we hear them in our own studio later in the hour, it's the famous Air from Bach's ...

When a hootenanny struck up 3,000—or 30,000—years ago, no recording engineer was there to capture what went down. Can anyone know, then, what ancient instruments like the aulos and carnyx really ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. We don’t normally think of Bach -- whose music is felt to have been ...

The Sept. 24 death of prominent conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood came just as the orchestra he founded in 1973, the Academy of Ancient Music, was set to take on some of his signature ...

Traditional music of the Dogumbo, Kassena, Ahanta, and Builsa people of Ghana. Dogumbo song (3:45) -- Dzil duet (2:26) -- Gonje songs (4:15) -- Donno drummers (3:16) -- Kassena-Nankani festival (2:33) ...