A Short Ride In A Fast Machine by John Adams GREG FOOT: This piece of music it's called "A Short Ride In A Fast Machine." "Fran what does it make you think of?" FRAN SCOTT: It makes me think that I'm ...

Those whose exposure to woodwind music has been through listening to bands or wind ensembles would have been amazed at the sounds generated by the Musicians from Marlboro Sunday night at Kutztown ...

Since the end of the big band era, the clarinet has taken a backseat to its sexier woodwind cousin, the saxophone. But in the Bay Area, thanks to a fertile environment of classically trained ...

This is FRESH AIR. In modern jazz and improvised music, there are many single-instrument choirs, such as saxophone quartets and brass ensembles. Also, bands have clarinets. Germany's The Clarinet Trio ...

The high note of the flute leads the Las Vegas Woodwind Quintet into the lilting sounds of its opening number, the classic composer Anton Reicha's "Opus 100." "We try to show the history of music in ...

Choosing the materials that make hi-fi speakers sound groovy has always involved a mixture of acoustic science and plain old trial and error. Wood vibrates evenly ...

CHRIS PASLES didn’t tell us anything about the sound of the Fauxharmonic in Sunday’s short item about its Beethoven symphony project [“A Sample of What’s in Store for Music?” Aug. 27]. I logged onto ...