For much of the past year, Mateen Milan, a second-year student at the Yale School of Music, was unable to meet indoors with fellow woodwind players to perform chamber music. Occasionally during the ...

The Metropolitan Jazz Octet (MJO) is the reawakening of a group that started in the 1950’s by Chicago saxophonist and arranger Tom Hilliard. From 1950 through mid-'80s Hilliard wrote many of the ...

Woodwind multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia has been both the beacon and a touchstone for the West Coast free improvising community, particularly in Los Angeles, for over 30 years. Golia started his ...

On Aug. 18, conductor Charles Dutoit curates a Tanglewood concert featuring two works of Igor Stravinsky: his 1918 “L'Histoire du Soldat” (“The Soldier's Tale”) and his 1923 Octet for wind instruments ...

Last semester, the School of Music’s wind and brass players were unable to practice in ensembles, since their instruments prevented them from wearing masks while performing. A new solution, the Octet ...

At age 16 — please repeat, 16 — Felix Mendelssohn composed one of the most miraculous pieces of chamber music of the last two centuries. His Octet for Strings in E-flat Major is a pedal-to-the-metal ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. While not explicitly linked, a subtle thread seemed to connect the three contrasting pieces presented by this flagship ensemble of the ...

2020 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Book of a Musical Dave Malloy 2020 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Director of a Musical Annie Tippe 2020 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Lyrics Dave Malloy 2020 Drama ...

An exploration of the impact on people of Mendelssohn's Octet and the healing power of music around the world. From August 2011. Show more An exploration of the impact that Mendelssohn's Octet has had ...