Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AS MUSICAL tastes were changing and baroque trumpets were falling out of favour with composers around the late 18th century, a ''miracle ...

Barry Bauguess played modern trumpet until 1984, when he heard a recording featuring the brilliant natural trumpeters Edward Tarr and Don Smithers. A year later, the North Carolina native was a busy ...

Boston Baroque, a homegrown early music orchestra, has been playing period instruments since 1973 — the first ensemble to do so in the U.S. Plenty of people have never seen or heard these rare strings ...

A baroque trumpet is curled, like a modern trumpet, but unlike a modern trumpet it has no valves (those buttonlike keys on top), which, in essence, change the length of the tube through which air is ...

The nature of an orchestra is to sublimate the individual in favor of the group, with the spotlight mostly reserved for guest soloists. But the best ensembles are filled with players who can shine. A ...

THE ESTEEMED Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is accustomed to trotting out vocalists and instrumentalists of immense talent to bolster its programs, but the February program is especially worth ...