How Does Abe Lincoln Sound? In a New Opera: Ugly, Honest, Cathartic

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” at the Met Opera is the latest, and perhaps darkest, in a long series ...

What is a Pipe Organ? — How Sound is Created and the Charm of the Instrument

Part 1Have you ever heard the sound of a pipe organ in a church or concert hall?A gentle sound, as if speaking quietly.At ...
Illinois Public Media

Heartland Festival Orchestra Features Oboist Evan Tammen in All-Baroque Program

On Saturday, November 14, the Heartland Festival Orchestra will feature Evan Tammen in two concertos. Tammen, HFO’s principal oboist, will perform Tomaso Albinoni’s Oboe Concerto No. 2 in D minor and ...

[Basic Knowledge] Why the same C note sounds different on different instruments

Have you ever heard a flute and an oboe play the same C note one after another at a music store counter? The tuner needle ...

Artist from South Carolina uses old instruments to amplify sound

Ryan Boase (yes, his real name) doesn't need plugs to help people turn up the volume for music. This is his 9th year at St. James Court Art Show in Louisville.
The Recorder

Pianist, oboist team up for next Brick Church Music Series concert in Deerfield

DEERFIELD — A rare musical pairing is coming to The First Church of Deerfield on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 3 p.m. In the 21st year of The Brick Church Music Series, oboist Tom Gallant will return with ...
BBC

The voice is an instrument

The most versatile instrument of all may be the one we carry within us, an endlessly adaptable musical tool, capable of conveying everything from technical brilliance to profound human expression. In ...
London Evening

Star oboist’s instrument stolen at central London train station

A classical musician who plays with one of the country’s leading chamber orchestras had his oboe snatched in a “distraction theft” at St Pancras station. Peter Facer, 38, compared the theft of his ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments’ Review: The Sound of Whimsy

In 1914 Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs published a taxonomy of musical instruments based on how an instrument’s sound is produced. Those that make a sound when a stretched membrane is ...
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The ancient instrument that sounds almost magical

The Ancient Instrument That Sounds Almost Magical. Its unique sound is unlike anything you've ever heard before. #Music #AncientInstrument #LivePerformance Who is Kaylub Giamanco? Man who killed ...
Variety

The Sound of ‘The Odyssey’: Composer Ludwig Göransson Used Ancient Greek Instruments, Scrap Metals and Gongs

Composer Ludwig Göransson has reunited with Christopher Nolan to score “The Odyssey,” marking their third collaboration after “Tenet” and “Oppenheimer.” Earlier this year, Göransson’s work on “Star ...
WHYY

Ben Price | Oboe The Sound

In this episode of On Stage at Curtis, meet oboist Ben Price of Portland, Oregon. A Curtis student since 2022, Ben has studied with acclaimed oboists Katherine Needleman and Philippe Tondre. Beginning ...