If you’ve never heard of a bass trombone, you’re probably not alone. It usually makes its home in the back row of the orchestra with the other low brass instruments, rarely getting any solo time. “The ...

On Jan. 10, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra delivered another in the ever-popular “Beethoven and Blue Jeans” series. A creation of Music Director Peter Rubardt, the January concerts bring brilliance ...

A trombone concerto is a sufficiently rare bird that each new sighting is something of an event. Thrill-seekers and trombonists turned out in San Rafael's Veterans Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday night ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The jazz composer wrote a new concerto for the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi, but died before its U.S.

The Reading Symphony Orchestra will feature one of its own Saturday at 8 p.m., when principal trombonist Bradley Ward performs Nino Rota’s Trombone Concerto. Music director Andrew Constantine will ...

When it comes to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), there are always a handful of musical initiatives that can be claimed as precedent setting. Take the concert that is being held on November ...

Towards the front of the rehearsal hall, the symphony is a sea of violins and violas. But the bows are as still as frozen water. Instead, an unlikely solo instrument from the back row has taken center ...

Berlioz once claimed that trombones have the power to not only mourn but also raise the dead. He likened trombones to a choir of priests who could call us to quiet prayer, but he also used the ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is continuing its fall season, COVID-19-adapted to a maximum of 40 musicians socially distanced on the extended Meyerson Symphony Center stage. Musicians are tested daily ...

A celebrated British trombonist will be giving the UK premiere of a new concerto in Earley on Saturday. Jonathan Warburton, who was previously a member of the National Youth Wind Orchestra, will be ...

In a typical Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert, principal trombonist Megumi Kanda is in the back with the other brass players. But in Tan Dun's "Three Muses in Video Game," the trombone is the hero ...