The National Arts Centre Orchestra will launch its new season on Friday with the call of a solo trumpet, an instrument traditionally employed to herald a celebration or sound a cry of mourning. In ...

Growing up in South Dakota with four older brothers, playing trumpet was a lifeline for Neil Mueller, Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s principal trumpeter. “There was always someone stronger, faster or a ...

Welcome back to Solos: This is another in an occasional series that will profile local musicians, actors and dancers who are normally seen performing in a group or ensemble. You can read their stories ...

“I can’t tell you what a blast I had playing that weekend,” says Karin Bliznik about her last appearance with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. “It’s a great orchestra — I can’t believe it’s happening ...

Antoine Reicha’s L’Arte de varier tantalises before you’ve heard a note; the composer’s Opus 57, its theme followed by 57 variations. Reicha was an exact contemporary of Beethoven and reportedly the ...

We’ve sung the praises of the Brussels Jazz Orchestra before ( The September Sessions) but never so loudly as for this new two–disc set on which the BJO plays the music of the marvelous Belgian ...

s new principal trumpet is a West Michigan native. Hunter Eberly, a native of Muskegon and a graduate of Grand Valley State University, joins the DSO following a three-year, international search that ...

Meredith Hicks, violin; Jacob Wunsch, cello; and Tim Smith, piano, will play the “Elegy” for Piano Trio, op.23, by Josef Suk ...

When Leo Fine, the trumpet player and orchestra leader, was out with his family, well-wishers would approach, happy to remind the St. Louis Park resident that he performed at their wedding or bar ...

David Mason, a classical musician best known for his distinctive piccolo trumpet solo on the Beatles’ recording of “Penny Lane,” has died. He was 85. Mason died April 29 after a brief battle with ...

Composed for orchestra, A Trumpeter's Lullaby was completed on September 22, 1949. It is 2 minutes and 30 seconds long. It was first performed on May 9, 1950 at the Boston Pops with Arthur Fiedler ...