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William Purvis is a Connecticut-based horn player with international acclaim, appearing as a soloist and chamber musician with groups like Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and serving as ...

Maybe all you know about trombones is that there was a song about 76 of them in “The Music Man,” or maybe you know that the trombone has a rich history in classical music as well, and has been a ...

Transcription is an art. It’s not just playing something written for one instrument on a different instrument, it’s finding new ways to draw out nuances in the composer's language. Clara Schumann’s ...

Benjamin Watson performs Reinhold Glière, Horn Concerto in B flat, Op. 91 in the Henry Epstein Studio at WXXI Public Media.

Second albums are notoriously difficult! The mixture of Mozart and mambo proved incredibly popular first-time round. There were more horn concertos to record, but I didn’t want to go to back to Cuba ...

There are brilliant interpretations of “the Mozarts” on old and on modern horn. The recordings by Dennis Brain with Karajan and the Philharmonia remain, at least on the scene I grew up in, the ...

Robert Lee Watt fell in love with the French horn at an early age. He met a lot of resistance from people who thought his background and his race made a career with the instrument unlikely — but he ...