This arts discipline has been divided into five specialties: jazz, piano, strings, winds and percussion, and world/cultural and commercial music. Semifinalists in each specialty will be chosen by a ...

From Henry Purcell to Joseph Haydn, here are some of the best pieces of music ever written for the trumpet. The trumpet is one of our oldest instruments, dating back over 500 years, when it was used ...

Now THIS is how you arrange for trumpet. Queen's classic hit is given a fantastic brass interpretation. Trumpet arrangements of instrumental music or covers of popular songs can be hit or miss. As a ...

Musician Marty Ehrlich doesn't play much on his new album; instead, he conducts an ensemble that performs his compositions. He tells Fresh Air about his first album devoted to his orchestral music.

She's known on the gospel circuit as "The Trumpet Lady," but Syreeta Thompson is much more than that. She's toured and worked with Beyoncé and Tito Puente, and her circle of friends and mentors ...

Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most influential and well-known jazz musicians of all-time. John Birks Gillespie, who passed away 25 years ago this month, he pioneered a number of jazz subgenres and ...

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