Flautists play during the 2014 Macy's Holiday Parade in downtown Portland. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian) (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian) What do two dozen flutes playing Christmas songs sound like? "Let ...

This 30-second video features the soothing sounds of a traditional flute, inspired by the serene teachings of Buddha. This ...

A fistful of flute! Helen Wilson, principal second flute in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, shows us how to make the iconic flute sound from Ennio Morricone’s The Good, the Bad, and the ...

Jim Murphy has no problem saying his music is not entertaining. Murphy and his wife, Donna, visit Brian's House in Bay City weekly to play flute music for hospice patients who are in the last days of ...

Aristotle warned people that the flute just didn’t have a good moral effect – “It is too exciting,” he claimed – but that could only have made it more popular. Centuries later, the flute is still ...

A bone flute unearthed at Jiahu in Wuyang county, Henan province. CHINA DAILY ZHENGZHOU－More than 8,000 years ago, a red-crowned crane died, leaving behind a bone from its wing to be claimed by ...

The late Don Gonzalo Fernández (1930-?) is sadly not that well-known today, and as I discovered in preparing this post, very little information is available about him online. He left Cuba for Paris in ...