If you’ve never heard of a bass trombone, you’re probably not alone. It usually makes its home in the back row of the orchestra with the other low brass instruments, rarely getting any solo time. “The ...

On Jan. 10, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra delivered another in the ever-popular “Beethoven and Blue Jeans” series. A creation of Music Director Peter Rubardt, the January concerts bring brilliance ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The jazz composer wrote a new concerto for the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi, but died before its U.S.

The first three notes of the concerto ring out, and it's clear that Matthew Watt knows his way around a trombone. The 20-year-old Augustana University student has a clear tone, and when the tempo ...

Towards the front of the rehearsal hall, the symphony is a sea of violins and violas. But the bows are as still as frozen water. Instead, an unlikely solo instrument from the back row has taken center ...

IT'S fair to say that James MacMillan's music has always been powerful, gut-driven and emotionally intense, yet cast in a protective veil of intellectual rigour '“ that characteristic Scottishness ...

Berlioz once claimed that trombones have the power to not only mourn but also raise the dead. He likened trombones to a choir of priests who could call us to quiet prayer, but he also used the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The concert marks the New York debut of rising French conductor Chloé van ...

Legend has it that renowned trumpeter Max Schlossberg once said, “missing a day of practice is like committing suicide.” His pupil at The Juilliard School, Joseph Alessi Sr., passed along rehearsal’s ...