SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Paul O'Dette made the leap from being a teen in a rock band playing Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin to being today a renowned player of an Early Music instrument. O'Dette plays ...

Beyond Vivaldi explores the late flowering of the lute concerto in the German-speaking courts of the mid-18th century, a repertoire that flourished briefly before the instrument’s eventual eclipse.

You probably awoke today not knowing you live in the city "of the lute," a stringed instrument of medieval origins. "Duluth" means "of the lute" in French. This city's name speaks of an instrument ...

Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...

Talk about having a penchant for "the oldies." When talking about old music, many people refer to the 1950s, '60s and '70s. But when Lakeside resident and lute player Edward Martin talks about old ...

Richard Kolb has never met anyone in Beacon who owns a theorbo. Ditto for a 10-string Baroque guitar, but there could be a few lute owners, he says. Kolb also plays standard classical guitar, which he ...