My flute teacher, a veteran jazz player and educator, sent me this video today. I was floored. I know a thing or two about Tuvan singing, having followed it for over twenty years with music from ...

At the time, Tuvan throat singing was unknown in the United States to all but a tiny group of devoted fans, said Ralph Leighton, founder of the newsletter-turned-website Friends of Tuva, who made the ...

For years, the territory that makes up Tuva spent hundreds of years changing hands. The semi-autonomous republic is now technically part of Russia. But Tuvans boast a musical identity all their own, ...

Tonight, The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, will host Tuvan throat singing group Alash. Albany is the group’s first stop on its U.S. tour, where audiences will hear music performed in a ...

What is it? A catch-all term covering different disciplines of extreme vocal technique from around the world, often recognised as a low, pulverising, drone-growl that western ears sometimes interpret ...

That would be the correct answer if the TV show “Jeopardy” ever had a World Music category with the question: “Name an award-winning vocal group from the former Soviet Republic of Tuva that is not ...

In art, there are the stories you want to believe and the ones you have to. Maybe you'd like to think Vermeer was in love with the girl with the pearl earring, or that Robert Johnson met the devil at ...

(Reuters) - Kongar-ol Ondar, a Tuvan throat singer credited with popularizing the centuries-old musical tradition of his homeland to Western audiences, died on Thursday after emergency surgery to ...

What do Richard Feynman, Willie Nelson, Frank Zappa and Boris Yeltsin have in common? The answer was embodied in a radiant, round-faced Siberian singer named Kongar-ol Ondar, whose voice was unlike ...

What do Richard Feynman, Willie Nelson, Frank Zappa and Boris Yeltsin have in common? The answer was embodied in a radiant, round-faced Siberian singer named Kongar-ol Ondar, whose voice was unlike ...