Movies have a way of making us laugh, cry, or hold our breath in suspense. Music is a big part of why this happens. A soft ...

Do you have a favorite instrument? If so, how does hearing that instrument make you feel? Happy? Calm? Maybe it just makes you want to get up and dance! In today’s story we’ll hear about an instrument ...

The late Don Gonzalo Fernández (1930-?) is sadly not that well-known today, and as I discovered in preparing this post, very little information is available about him online. He left Cuba for Paris in ...

When did flutes start being held sideways, and are there any that you play vertically instead? We dive into the history of classical music’s transverse instrument. In 2008, at Hohle Fels, a cave in ...