Barry Bauguess played modern trumpet until 1984, when he heard a recording featuring the brilliant natural trumpeters Edward Tarr and Don Smithers. A year later, the North Carolina native was a busy ...

It is the most modern of early instruments. Mastering it requires effort and a great deal of passion. Five organists —ranging ...

Kenneth Goldsmith’s 1690 Albanus violin. Photo by St. John Flynn. This evening at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, faculty and students present “Sharing the Spotlight,” a recital of works ...

Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans explain how the AMC series' unique, darkly funny tone led to the unexpected sounds and instruments they incorporated.

Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare strings ...

For the holiday season, Jeanette Sorrel conducts the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, in a performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Each day this week, Performance Today is presenting the ...

Casual classical music listeners might think of it as a genre designed around string quartets and pianos. But the hardcore devotees among us know that the piano didn’t even exist when many of the best ...

On the 27th evening in Sangdo-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, a rehearsal room echoed with Bach’s *Brandenburg Concerto No. 1*, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The Audacity' composers on unique instruments and baroque touches to add quirk and charm to the score. Danny Bensi and Saunder ...

Manoel Theatre has just inherited a number of rare and valuable instruments, left by George Debono, which date back to the Baroque era. The instruments include a Broadwood piano which dates back to ...