Dai Fujikura’s elusive trombone concerto was given its UK premiere by Peter Moore, who made its colours and textures sing; a persuasive but perhaps too sunny reading of Mahler’s first symphony followe ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a typical Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert, principal trombonist Megumi Kanda is in the back with the other brass players. But in Tan Dun's "Three Muses in Video Game," the trombone is the hero ...

Then came a stroke of luck. Free got into conversation with an American pianist, who was over recording the Gershwin concerto with the RSNO and was an ardent enthusiast of Shilkret's music. "He ...

A trombone concerto is a sufficiently rare bird that each new sighting is something of an event. Thrill-seekers and trombonists turned out in San Rafael's Veterans Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday night ...

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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 ...