Interview by Diane Boyd Schultz What was your early musical training like? My musical training officially began in my public-school band program in…
When I arrived to teach make up lessons last week at the Oberlin Community Music School, I found the driveway blocked with trucks,…
The piece was completed in 2020 at the request of the Royal Academy of Music as part of the run-up to the 200th-year…
The piece was completed in 2020 at the request of the Royal Academy of Music as part of the run-up to the 200th-year…
In Prelude, the poet John Millington Synge (1871-1909) takes us away not only from the City with all its noise, chatter and chaos,…
“Moon’s Mourning”, for alto flute and bodhran, is a dramatic climax of a 30-minute fairy tale The Animal That Drank Up Sound (music…
Inspired by backyard sounds and the music of Messiaen, this work uses pan-diatonicism and atonal counterpoint to evoke birds in flight, singing separately…
Well, it is summer and many music departments are on break for a little while. Soon enough, the melodious sounds will start resonating…
Intro from Jessica: Keith does amazing work on instruments, so when it’s time for my piccolo’s annual COA, there’s nobody else I’d take…
Many of us have been in the situation where we realize that it is time to upgrade our flutes and we make the…
Here we are, starting to see the leaves change again and digging for the sweatshirts in the back of the closet. I got…
I recently had a dear friend’s piccolo on my bench for an overhaul. It was a well-loved older Haynes piccolo. When an instrument…
Getting started on the lower flutes can be a daunting task at first. They are larger, heavier, and awkward to hold. They respond…