It’s nice not to be brilliant, sometimes—or at least it is if you’re a flutist. The transverse flute—that familiar skinny, cylindrical object—has evolved over several centuries to become something ...
Every week, Classic FM presenter and music expert David Mellor reviews the best new releases and re-issues from the world of classical music. This week, David picks out Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Baroque ...
Michael Lynn looked happy and rejuvenated Saturday in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and why not? The Oberlin Conservatory professor of recorder and Baroque flute was about the ...
While growing up in Berkeley in the 1950s and early 1960s, Kathleen Kraft played flute in the Berkeley High Orchestra but never really ?bonded? with her pure silver, modern instrument. Instead, she ...
When Daniel Deitch was growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s, music was his nourishment. His parents were ex-beatniks who played music constantly - everything from Beethoven quartets to John Coltrane ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The program opens with Concerto in A Major for Harpsichord and Strings by ...
IF you are a flautist you will probably be more than familiar with the work, or at least the teachings, of this prolific composer of the 18th Century. Quantz's Essay on Playing the Flute written in ...
Back when the Renaissance period gave way to the Baroque era, musicians of the time discovered that the Renaissance flute wasn't quite up to the task of the new music. But with a few tweaks, the ...
The quaint church of St Catherine of Italy in Valletta will once again be the venue for a concert of classical works in the series of summer concerts in aid of the restoration works for the same ...