Virtuoso William Barton, renowned for bringing together First Nations culture and European classical music, reflects on heritage and the lifelong pull of the yidaki.
The didgeridoo is, to American ears, an exotic instrument. An instrument of the Australian Aborigines, most commonly made of the hollowed-out trunk of a eucalyptus tree, the didgeridoo has had no ...
AUSTIN -- Eliot Stone first heard the sound of the didgeridoo when he was in school. He loved it so much, he was inspired to study the instrument and follow his passion to Australia. Stone studied ...
Who is to say that a musical instrument is primitive? Who is to say that a musical instrument tells us nothing about psychology and the human experience? The Australian Didgeridoo is the most ancient ...
“Bugs!” the 1st-grader at St. Paul’s Lutheran School shouted enthusiastically. No, we weren’t in the middle of an entomology lesson. I was giving a demonstration on the didgeridoo, using the actual ...
When he was 10 years old, Peter D. Harper’s family moved from the United Kingdom to Perth, Australia. He developed an interest in the didgeridoo music that he heard indigenous Aboriginal musicians ...
RINGOES -- Shalisa Rose Horvath transitioned this life Aug. 21, 2014 at the Hartwick at Cedar Brook Rehab Center, in Plainfield. Born in Whitehouse, NJ she had been a lifelong resident of Ringoes.