The French horn. It’s the heart and soul of any symphony orchestra, and writing for it always brought out the best in Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss and so many other great composers. But don’t let ...

He abandoned his French horn years ago, so why did the composer decide now was the time to dust the cobwebs off it? I grew up in a forest at the edge of England and Wales; a borderland in the shape of ...

SAN ANTONIO — An exploration of the origin of the French horn constituted much of the first concert of the San Antonio Symphony's third year of its baroque series at San Fernando Cathedral on Sunday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 major point of interest at the Seattle Symphony concert Thursday night at Benaroya Hall was the premiere of a new French horn concerto by the orchestra's resident composer, Samuel Jones. Its ...

When Kyle Wiley Pickett, Springfield Symphony director, asked Principal Horn Lisa Casey to choose a concerto in which she would be the featured soloist, she decided based on several personal and ...

David Cooper, French horn with Berlin Philharmonic and guest artist with the Lansing Symphony this Saturday night. Saturday night, the Lansing Symphony welcomes a Lansing-born soloist that nowadays ...

It was barely two years ago that the Seattle Symphony premiered a tuba concerto by Samuel Jones, the orchestra's composer in residence. On Thursday, it is premiering another concerto by Jones for a ...