It was the first and only time that Dennis James smacked a celebrity. During a 1999 taping of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee,” Regis Philbin excitedly got up, strode over to James and reached for his ...

A glass armonica, originally invented by Benjamin Franklin and revived at a recent performance at the Park Avenue Armory (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an ...

TOLEDO —Twenty minutes before his performance with an orchestra in Naples, Italy, Dennis James learned that the concert would be televised throughout Europe. When intense camera lights were trained on ...

Glass-ical Musick will be coming to Redding when armonica player Dennis James performs in Redding on Jan. 7. He will perform and educate audiences about his instrument, the glass armonica, which was ...

SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

Benjamin Franklin is widely remembered for his role in politics, science, and innovation. However, one of his lesser-known inventions– a musical instrument– rarely makes it to the spotlight. Known as ...

Starting tonight, a group of experimental musicians in B.C. will give a series of performances using instruments and objects made solely from glass. The project sees three musicians from Victoria's ...

Two years ago, percussionist Jake Schlaerth scored a Mason Gross fellowship to study the glass armonica His mastery of the instrument is featured in the nation's No. 1 film, "Logan," the latest ...