Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

Many of us know the recorder as the plastic pipe that gets handed out in elementary school music class. More closely resembling a toy than something a rock star would carry, it doesn’t have a ...

Contact this contributing writer at lisa.knodel@gmail.com. When people think about recorders, they remember their squeaky elementary school rehearsals. However, one local group is taking the ...

Pity the poor recorder, tortured in a thousand classrooms by reluctant schoolchildren. It’s still the most popular instrument learned in school, according to a survey this week, but is there any sound ...

ON February 27, 1668, after attending a performance of The Virgin Martyr by Philip Massinger, Samuel Pepys noted in his diary: “That which did please me beyond anything in the whole world was the wind ...

Classical music is an important part of life for the UK’s Prime Minister, who has a particular passion for Beethoven piano sonatas. The former barrister, who was elected to succeed Rishi Sunak as ...