You may have played one (badly) in primary school... But the recorder is actually one of the most agile and sophisticated instruments of the baroque period. With its sweet, soothing, woody tone, and ...

Everybody loves the flute. Along with the drum, it's among the oldest of musical instruments, going back 35,000 to 40,000 years. In those days, they made flutes from bear bones, mammoth tusks and ...

Lucie Horsch, a 17-year-old prodigy, has just scored a major label contract, but she’s the latest of many great musicians to decide the recorder isn’t just for kids Lucie Horsch arrives with a small ...

PORT ANGELES — Three recorder-playing women, a new piece called “Woodland Sketches” and a selection of Baroque sonatas are all part of the fare today in a concert called “Wood’n’Flutes.” In this 7 p.m ...

A pair of recorder virtuosos will be performing at Wokingham Town Hall this week. Peter Wells and Maria Sanger are appearing at the hall in Market Place as part of its baroque music seasons on ...

There’s no question that a list of classical music’s greatest hits would include several from Vivaldi. But that list likely would also include works by other composers of the Italian Baroque, ...

Michael Lynn looked happy and rejuvenated Saturday in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and why not? The Oberlin Conservatory professor of recorder and Baroque flute was about the ...

The recorder often inflicts squeaky torture on parents. Music teacher Valerie DePriest explains why it became a staple in music education. When Lebanon-born George Semaan came to the United States via ...

The Renaissance wind band -- Spectra Musica -- will be heard on Nov. 13 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lambertville. (Courtesy of Kevane & Company) The Delaware Valley has, over the years, been ...

Pity the poor recorder, tortured in a thousand classrooms by reluctant schoolchildren. It’s still the most popular instrument learned in school, according to a survey this week, but is there any sound ...