GRAND RAPIDS -- It's no secret that classical music sometimes befuddles its audiences. Occasionally, it perplexes its players, too. That's frequently true with avant-garde and experimental music, but ...

When Kyle Wiley Pickett, Springfield Symphony director, asked Principal Horn Lisa Casey to choose a concerto in which she would be the featured soloist, she decided based on several personal and ...

Growing up as the son of Munich’s foremost horn player certainly endowed composer Richard Strauss with an appreciation of the instrument. Perhaps in homage to his father, Franz, who was principal of ...

Strauss Horn Concerto: It's not too much of a surprise that Richard Struass wrote some outstanding music for the French horn. He had a strong influence while he was growing up: his father Franz was ...