Earlier this year, composer John Williams was one of the six people celebrated at the Kennedy Center Honors, recognizing his contributions to this country's arts and culture. As far as Dale Clevenger ...

The first recording entirely devoted to works by Jan Bach, who recently retired from his longtime teaching post at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, is in large measure a showcase for the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Barry Tuckwell was one of the world's greatest players of the French horn. He made the notoriously ...

German French horn master Stefan Dohr will join the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Richard Strauss's Horn Concerto No.2 at the Main Hall of Thailand Cultural Centre, ...

One of the many cool things about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Mozart Festival, which runs through Feb. 5, is the opportunity it offers orchestra members to shine in the solo spotlight. So often ...

Every orchestral instrument has its Everest to climb, and for the French horn, it’s Robert Schumann’s beautiful but brutal “Konzertstuck,” a concerto for four horns and orchestra. This Saturday’s ...

Some of the biggest names in classical music include Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven and Bach, and they were all German or Austrian, said Stephen Blackwelder, director of the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra.

The romantic myth tells us that composers are struck as if by lightning with bolts of musical inspiration, which send them scurrying to the piano with sheaves of paper and bottles of ink. Consumed by ...

If you’ve seen a Hollywood movie in the past 30 years, chances are excellent that you’ve heard the majestic horn playing of James Thatcher. As one of the industry’s busiest French horn musicians, ...

Tom Service unwinds the 12-foot metal tube that is the French horn to discover its atavistic appeal for three centuries of composers, from Handel to Ligeti and beyond. Show more The French horn, ...