When the American Brass Quintet formed 45 years ago, classical brass music had been going through a quiet phase – for some 400 years.According to Raymond Mase, a trumpeter who joined the American ...

Maybe all you know about trombones is that there was a song about 76 of them in “The Music Man,” or maybe you know that the trombone has a rich history in classical music as well, and has been a ...

In 2014, some of the country’s finest classical brass musicians got together in the Bay Area to recreate a seminal 1968 recording of sacred music by the great Italian Renaissance composer Giovanni ...

Back in early March, before we knew not to take such luxuries for granted, a hundred or so music fans walked up the rain-covered steps of All Souls Unitarian Church off 16th Street NW in Washington ...

REVIEW: The New York Philharmonic Principal Brass new CD: "New York" Who says classical music can't be fun? So what does the finest brass section in the world do for fun when it's not playing famous ...

Close your eyes: A Mozart piano sonata is being performed live some feet in front of you on stage. Impeccably, the music swells and soars in one measure and whispers in the next. Now, open your eyes ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

Placing these three single movements together serves to highlight just how great Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 is, and just how hard it is to create a genuinely cohesive single movement symphony.

This post was updated Oct. 22 at 11:39 a.m. The Chromatic Brass Collective is making sure to hit every note. The collective got its start in June 2020 when a group of musicians gathered to discuss ...

From the album "Classic Christmas Brass" You can learn more about the Canadian Brass at canadianbrass.com, and you can learn about their performance in Kansas City at hjseries.org.

Classical music is surprisingly controversial. For some, it’s a pinnacle of cultural achievement. For others it perpetuates class inequality and upholds “white middle class social domination”. To ...