Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. PS CLASSICS has announced a 10th Anniversary re-release of The Trumpet of the Swan ...

Bill Owens plays trumpet and loves baroque music. Unfortunately, there was not that much music written for trumpetduring the baroque era because trumpets of the time were severelylimited by their lack ...

British trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom introduces her wonderful instrument – a modern adaptation of the “natural” trumpet. “Some people might not even think it looks like a trumpet,” Alison says. “But ...

Surviving pictures of the English composer and organist John Stanley show clearly the effects of a childhood domestic accident that saw him blinded at the age of two. It is clearly something that ...

Trumpeters were the star musicians of the Baroque era, their shiny, golden tones vital to evoking the glory of victory and the majesty of kings. Here, accompanied by the English Concert under Trevor ...

As one of the most highly regarded trumpeters and innovative classical musicians of her generation, Alison Balsom has spent the last decade performing in the world’s most prestigious venues. But this ...

Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most influential and well-known jazz musicians of all-time. John Birks Gillespie, who passed away 25 years ago this month, he pioneered a number of jazz subgenres and ...

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