Since I was a boy, my musical heroes have been jazz musicians — Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, John Coltrane. My own trumpet playing was good enough to get me the solo chair in the school ...

Being little more than a husk of keratin hacked off the head of a ram, the shofar is not a very versatile instrument. Because there’s no real mechanism to alter pitch within the hollow horn, the ...

Much of the work of Wilmington native and classical music composer Meira Warshauer has focused on the spiritual realm of life. But with her most recent piece, “Tekeeyah (a call) – Concerto for ...

Elevating the unconventional instrument ELEVATING AN unconventional ethnic instrument to de facto official acceptance of its rightful place in the classical music sector is no mean feat for anyone, ...