STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — They may not be ready for Carnegie Hall just yet, but the award-winning Chamber Music program at PS 54 is pushing students in that direction. The youngsters are part of a chamber ...
On a pleasantly warm night of the last day in February, lovely strings and bold brass rang from Hinton Hall in the Wright ...
Eugene Izotov has been the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal oboist since 2005. In the midst of While on the orchestra’s recent European tour, he spoke about his instrument as well as the perils ...
The oboe, a long reedy apparatus, is an overlooked member of the woodwind family. Yet it’s the instrument that the rest of the orchestra tune themselves to. Described by the son of Jean de Vergie, an ...
Transformations and Further Passages, a lively new album by Germany's The Clarinet Trio, revives tunes written by German jazz composers in the 1950s and '60s. This is FRESH AIR. In modern jazz and ...
The next Kontakt instrument in the Primaries series is a "full-spectrum collection of uniquely expressive woodwind articulations" that "captures the physical friction of the woodwind family" When you ...
Sharing her love of music is a heartening task for Sharon Lehmann, who belongs to several musical groups in town. Conceiving an ensemble group was a natural progression of her passion. High Plains ...