Decades ago, Ripley’s Believe It or Not clued readers in about the English horn. The instrument, it declared, is “neither English nor a horn.” In fact, there’s little agreement about where the name of ...

The word of the evening was "stamina." Tugan Sokhiev led the Cleveland Orchestra in a meticulous display of sonic splendor ...

Grover Schiltz refused to be bound by the narrow routine of life as an orchestral musician, even if that orchestra happened to be the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The CSO’s longtime principal English ...

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Eugene “Geno” Boarman sometimes gets curious looks when he describes the 1,100-year-old English tradition he regularly upholds in the city of Ripon, near RAF Menwith Hill. As he stands in a heavy tan ...

Spend a week with Carolyn Hove, solo English horn of the LA Philharmonic! Gain skill and insight into the most demanding orchestral excerpts and popular solo literature & enhance your reed making. The ...

The details What: Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Classics concerts, titled "The Seductress." When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Where: Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater, John H. Mulroy Civic Center, 411 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Prior to joining the Oregon Symphony, Mustain spent two years living in ...

Julie Ann Giacobassi, the San Francisco Symphony's quietly excellent English horn player, will be hanging up her reeds at the end of this season, after 25 years with the orchestra. "I have been ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. I currently enjoy playing Second Oboe/English Horn with the Ann Arbor ...

English horns are not in any way English. It takes four musicians to properly play a trio sonata. And George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is not a Christmas piece. Or at least not intended as one.

To conclude this season's series of the Malvern Concert Club we were offered an eclectic programme, as performed by the English Horn Trio of Richard Watkins (horn), Pauline Lowbury (violin) and ...