Contact this contributing writer at lisa.knodel@gmail.com. When people think about recorders, they remember their squeaky elementary school rehearsals. However, one local group is taking the ...

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

Classical music is an important part of life for the UK’s Prime Minister, who has a particular passion for Beethoven piano sonatas. The former barrister, who was elected to succeed Rishi Sunak as ...

Songs of medicine men -- Songs related to irrigation and crops -- Songs related to corn -- Songs related to wheat -- Buffalo dance songs -- Songs of the winter-solstice ceremony -- Bow and arrow dance ...

Pity the poor recorder, tortured in a thousand classrooms by reluctant schoolchildren. It’s still the most popular instrument learned in school, according to a survey this week, but is there any sound ...

Recorder player and record producer Laoise O’Brien has decided to become a crusader on behalf of her instrument. She probably couldn’t have chosen a better time to take up the cause. The day I spoke ...