If you take four slabs of wood, each the size of, say, a coffin lid, and cushion each one atop a wooden resonance chamber as large as a piano cabinet, what you end up with may look like a carpenter’s ...

MCK Special School for the Deaf’s marimba band teacher Mthokozisi Sibisi with pupils recently. Picture: Nigel Sibanda “I wish every child could learn how to play marimba music because it is good for ...

SAN ANTONIO – A Judson ISD music teacher is introducing students to a new sound. For weeks, Park Village Blended Learning Academy students have been learning how to play the marimba. “It got difficult ...

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It's shaping up as a Rebecca Penneys weekend with the pianist giving a matched pair of recitals and a master class. Penneys, right, longtime professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music and ...

On his front porch, Antonio Ortiz practices a dying art. For five decades, Ortiz has built marimbas. But marimbistas like Ortiz are becoming rare. The marimba is the national instrument of Costa Rica, ...