The great themes of human suffering and the struggle to escape it through religious or political means have inspired many composers to write works that call for massive performance forces, including ...

Beneath the veneer of the "great composers"—Bach, Mozart and Beethoven—lay a wealth of talent that was composed at the same time, often competing with what history has deemed its betters. It would be ...

English clarinetist Michael Collins is no stranger to Mozart's lone clarinet concerto, having provided Gramophone Magazine its critical selection of the same for several years in Clarinet Concertos: ...

MONTPELIER — Vermont Virtuosi premiered a brilliant new work for clarinet and piano by Burlington composer Thomas L. Read at the Unitarian Church on Saturday. The program, which also featured two ...

First, Horns for Haiti founder Bill Cole explained why we were at Caffe Lena Thursday; then Evan Christopher and Clarinet Road showed why that was such a fine, fun idea. The show benefited the ...

Two of the finest wind players on the recital circuit teamed up Sunday evening to open the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library’s Chamber Concert Series. Flutist Demarre McGill is well known and loved here ...

The Chiarina Chamber Players were joined by Philadelphia Orchestra principal clarinet Ricardo Morales for a program of Bartók, Brahms and Reinaldo Moya. Pardon my language, but Oscars schmoscars. On ...

Who knew a clarinet could compete with a T. rex? Alexandre Desplat, the Academy Award-winning French composer who created the score for “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” got help on the new dinosaur ...

The Musical Times is the oldest continuously-published music journal in the world, founded in 1844. For more information, including an extensive archive of obituaries of leading musicians from ...