Christian Cortez wears a necklace with a black and red cross on it. The cross isn’t religious in the traditional sense, though for Cortez, it might as well be. It’s a symbol for Crossmen, an ...

Amazing things can happen when you learn to play an instrument. Just ask the Utica Community Schools music teacher who has been invited to perform in an elite brass band competition in Switzerland ...

For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...