Reese Erlich reports from La Paz, Bolivia, on an American conductor directing a major Bolivian symphony. Through Andean folk music, David Handel has appealed to indigenous residents and hopes to make ...

Every weekday through Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafe dives into the music of a different country in Latin America. Editor's Note: To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month this year, World Cafe is ...

Like many other films that suffered financially during the Covid-19 pandemic, Scott Loudon’s documentary on the music of the Jesuit reductions in South America stalled. But the project never died.

The aging musical score wasn’t easy to read. It was a copy of a copy of a Latin Mass by 18th-century composer Domenico Zipoli that had crossed the Atlantic and most of South America, only to be ...

When Mariel Chura joined a youth orchestra at age 14, she did not even know what a viola was. Seven years later, she loves the instrument, which has offered her an escape from the hardships of ...

Editor's Note: To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month this year, World Cafe is going on a musical tour of Latin America. Every weekday from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we'll spotlight the music of a ...