A Dixieland band player who didn’t clean his clarinet for 30 years is recovering from a year-long allergic reaction caused by fungus that grew inside the reed instrument, experts said. The 68-year-old ...

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome met at a "Purple Rain" party when they were 19 — sophomores at Pratt Institute. "I asked her to dance, and we've been dancing together ever since," says James ...

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The Gaston Symphonic Band's free 2025 fall concert will feature pieces from The Nightmare Before Christmas and more.

Piano by Nature is wrapping up its 2024-2025 season with a concert by husband-and-wife woodwind duo from right here in the Adirondacks. Todd Pray, saxophone, and Janine Sherline, clarinet are doing to ...

BALTIMORE — A wheezing Atlanta clarinet player, who had been playing Dixie for 30 years, was diagnosed with saxophone lung after a year of symptoms that did not improve with treatment from inhaled ...

Simmons, who spent decades at Lamar University before retiring, will perform on saxophone and clarinet with his ensemble.

Last week, Margaret and I dropped in on the weekly Wednesday-night music dinner at St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, on Esplanade Avenue, a post-Katrina phenomenon on a smaller scale than the New Orleans ...

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A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the... Trumpet was too loud, clarinet was too soft — here's 'The ...