Every horn player knows Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. One of that composer’s most beautiful, and cogent, pieces, it often sends tingles of dread in the bravest of hornists; it was, after […]
The outstanding British-Hungarian violinist György Pauk has owned and played the Massart Strad of 1714 almost all his musical life. He hates to see it idle so, he tells us, ‘I have decided that I […]
Musicians union Local 802 has chosen Broadway trombonist Robert Suttmann as its unopposed new president. He succeeds harpist Sara Cutler who, in 18 months, nailed major news deals at the New York Philharmonic and New […]