For most Indonesians, the first traditional instrument that comes to mind is likely the gamelan or angklung. But for Yona ...

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Musician Rhiannon Giddens is a Renaissance woman whose work shines across a variety of genres. She is a talented singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist; she has won two Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize ...

Formed by siblings who grew up playing together, the Hagen Quartet is finishing a farewell tour with an unforced, casual ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia's rupiah hit more than 18,000 per dollar for the first time Thursday (Jun 4) as the country is stung by surging energy costs, while lawmakers passed a Bill expanding oversight of ...

The former head of an Indonesian government agency responsible for the rollout of President Prabowo Subianto's enormous free school meals program has been arrested by the Attorney General's Office ...

Musicians experience Indonesian percussion for the first time and explore the sounds, rhythm, and creativity behind unique traditional instruments. #IndonesianMusic #Percussion #MusiciansReact Super ...

String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it failed to provide testable predictions and required ten dimensions ...

A teller prepares rupiah bank notes at a money changer in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 20, 2026. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana SINGAPORE: The Indonesian rupiah is facing renewed pressure, sinking to ...