“Healing Tones,” a new composition commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra, opens with the sound of a ram’s horn or shofar — a traditional Jewish musical instrument. This particular shofar comes ...

Inmates at Philadelphia Detention Center meet with Hannibal Lokumbe in the prison gym for music and soul searching. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Prisoners at the Philadelphia Detention Center get music and life ...

Classical composer and accomplished jazz trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe has reflected on the African-American experience through music and words for over four decades. The composer’s latest project, ...

The use of sound as medicine is one of humanity’s oldest healing traditions. In ancient Egypt, priests used chanting and ...