Besides shouldering aside pianists and violinists to win top competition prizes, Ratoi advocates for his instrument in ...

Holshouser turned to accordion when a college pal gave him one as a gift. Martin Johnson reviews his latest album, then Terry Gross hosts Holshouser in the studio for conversation and some music. This ...

When it comes to Texas music, the guitar gets all the attention, thanks to a long line of six-string immortals such as T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Gary Clark Jr. But frankly, the instrument ...

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 ...

Imagine a universe exactly like ours in every way but for a lone exception: There is only one type of music. Accordion music. This week, such parallel universes have collided. The rift in the cosmic ...

When Horace Heidt brought his traveling talent show, the “Original Youth Opportunity Program”, presented by Phillip Morris Cigarettes, to Syracuse in April 1948, Gustav Rautenberg’s classmates at ...