Maybe all you know about trombones is that there was a song about 76 of them in “The Music Man,” or maybe you know that the trombone has a rich history in classical music as well, and has been a ...

British-style brass bands are of the people, for the people, and by the people. They’re made up of unpaid citizens who get together to play classical music just because they love to. They have this ...

Placing these three single movements together serves to highlight just how great Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 is, and just how hard it is to create a genuinely cohesive single movement symphony.

This post was updated Oct. 22 at 11:39 a.m. The Chromatic Brass Collective is making sure to hit every note. The collective got its start in June 2020 when a group of musicians gathered to discuss ...

The modern brass quintet was developed long after Johann Sebastian Bach lived, but brass quintets play arrangements of Bach’s music all the time. It works well—they sound like an organ, Bach’s primary ...

Close your eyes: A Mozart piano sonata is being performed live some feet in front of you on stage. Impeccably, the music swells and soars in one measure and whispers in the next. Now, open your eyes ...

It's worth noting that Beethoven's final piano sonatas weren't his last works; there was still a lot of music in him. Performing them as weighty, epic closing statements can smother the sonatas’ ...

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New and old CDs from David Childs and John Wilson to Black Dyke and Williams Fairey.

From the album "Classic Christmas Brass" You can learn more about the Canadian Brass at canadianbrass.com, and you can learn about their performance in Kansas City at hjseries.org.

The Vero Friends of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra have announced its annual benefit concert on December 3 at Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club. This year's program, entitled “Classy Brass,” will ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...