It seemed rather odd to be attending a Paul Fromm Concert by the Contemporary Chamber Players that was not dominated by the avuncular presence of the late, great musical patron to whom these annual ...

Transformations and Further Passages, a lively new album by Germany's The Clarinet Trio, revives tunes written by German jazz composers in the 1950s and '60s. This is FRESH AIR. In modern jazz and ...

Wharton Music Center presents Clarinets a la Mode as part of its Community Concert Series on April 26 at 3 p.m. at the Long Hill Township Public Library, 917 Valley Road in Gillette. The concert is ...

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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 ...

The hauntingly beautiful 'wailing' sounds of early New Orleans jazz clarinets, often featured in brass bands or jazz funerals, are one of the most distinctive instrument styles in American music. The ...