'Rock'n'roll is a runaway train -- you either get on board or you fall off the track.' Brian Tairaku Ritchie should know. A founding member of the folk-punk band Violent Femmes in Milwaukee back in ...

Musician and bona fide grandmaster James Nyoraku Schlefer will show off his eclectic talent on the shakuhachi — a traditional Japanese wooden flute — in a performance sure to get plenty of one hands ...

First broadcast 24 April 2009. Brian Tairaku Ritchie: Hi, my name is Brian Tairaku Ritchie. Tairaku is my professional name which was given to me by three of my teachers. It means 'big music'.

In a rehearsal room in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies, students are blowing into their instruments, flicking hands over finger holes, shaking heads, and dipping chins up and down to create ...