I look at my clarinet sometimes and think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. As Ian Dury might have sung had he played the clarinet, "Hit me with your licorice stick.

Goodman played the clarinet even "during the commercial breaks of the World Series," according to one of his daughters. Bettmann / Corbis In the hierarchy of musical instruments, the clarinet tends to ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. This section of the orchestra got its name from the fact that many of its ...

For the first time, a student ensemble from Fresno State will perform at one of the world’s largest clarinet conferences this ...

You've heard of the clarinet, you've heard of the bass clarinet. Well now meet their bigger, badder brother: the contrabass clarinet! The contrabass clarinet, also known as a pedal or elephant ...

A woman with Parkinson's disease who played a clarinet while undergoing brain stimulation said she was "delighted" with how it went. Denise Bacon, 65, from Crowborough in East Sussex, experienced ...

Taking advantage of the new expressive possibilities opened up by improvements in the design of the clarinet, Mozart created a concerto of exquisite beauty — one of the last works he would ever write.

Christopher Theofanidis’s “Indigo Heaven” was well, well worth the wait. Chicago Symphony audiences expected to hear the American composer’s clarinet concerto, written for CSO principal clarinetist ...