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 ...

(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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

BELLOWS FALLS -- Stone Church Arts and the Bellows Falls Opera House present the throat singing ensemble Alash performing the unique, traditional music of the Central Asian Republic of Tuva at the ...

An international research team has uncoupled the mystery of how Tuvan throat singers produce distinctive sounds in which you can hear two different pitches at once—a low rumble and a high whistle-like ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Kongar-ol Ondar was an internationally renowned master of Tuvan throat singing, the Central Asian ...

Sean Quirk, a longtime friend of the singer and manager of the Tuvan throat-singing ensemble Alash. score for the 1993 film “Geronimo.” “He was a showman but was true to his Tuvan roots,” said ...