From his backyard shop off the Danforth, Weir has worked on clarinets and saxophones for professionals from top orchestras, ...

A 65-year-old British woman with Parkinson's disease underwent deep brain stimulation surgery while awake. During the ...

Why the name?” and “Why the instruments?” are the two most common things we get asked about our group. As a member of The ...

WHEN you first listen to drummer Will Glaser's Music of the Terrazoku, two tapes of “ethnographic recordings from an imagined ...

The ‘Gran Partita’ is a big ensemble piece for woodwinds – and something of an adventure in instrumentation. Part of the challenge for the NouLou Chamber Players is to mix and match the instruments of ...

Titled If you hear something, free something, Bass’s sound work engages the MTA’s public announcement system. Photo by Ally Caple, courtesy Creative Time Sound is perhaps the medium capable of ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

The JBL Sense Pro clip-on earbuds are designed to deliver punchy audio while keeping you aware of your surroundings – and all without sharing sound with everybody around you. Available from October ...

Christopher Theofanidis’s “Indigo Heaven” was well, well worth the wait. Chicago Symphony audiences expected to hear the American composer’s clarinet concerto, written for CSO principal clarinetist ...

England’s Black Country, New Road have announced a new album, Forever Howlong, and released its first single, “Besties.” They have also announced some tour dates. Forever Howlong is due out April 4 ...

Jimmy Giuffre is a spare, soft-spoken Texan who distrusts the word jazz, but plays some of the best jazz to be heard these days—most of it of his own composition. Giuffre (pronounced joo-free) has ...