EDMONDS — Just a month past its holiday pops concert, the busy Cascade Symphony Orchestra begins the new year with a concert Monday featuring French hornist Jeffrey Fair. Fair, the principal horn of ...

Every orchestral instrument has its Everest to climb, and for the French horn, it’s Robert Schumann’s beautiful but brutal “Konzertstuck,” a concerto for four horns and orchestra. This Saturday’s ...

By O’Dell Isaac Lovers of music – and of the Halloween season – can treat themselves to several haunting musical offerings at ...

The modern French horn, with its complex tubing and finger keys at the center, has come a long way from its hunting party origins. Orchestral instruments don't come more treacherous than the French ...

What happens when you get about 40 French horn players together in one room? In the Nutmeg state, they band together to create a powerful sound, while raising funds for a powerful cause. The ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. This family needs no fanfare! Brass intruments can fit in anywhere: ...

Eighty years ago, on Oct 27 1945, the cream of London’s orchestral players gathered together in Kingsway Hall for the first ...

The details What: Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Classics concerts. When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Where: Crouse-Hinds Concert Theatre, John H. Mulroy Civic 411 Montgomery St., Syracuse. The program: ...

It is one of the most rousing instruments in the orchestra, used to create soaring fanfares and powerful harmonics. However, it seems the beauty of the French horn may be lost on the very musicians ...