Musical Spotlight: Clarinet This member of the woodwind family makes its sound with help from a thin piece of bamboo called a reed. Like the saxophone, the clarinet is a single-reed instrument.

There is suppleness, also, in the four musicians on stage with him: Kate Ellis (cello), Carlsbad (vocals/guitar), Kevin Corcoran (keyboards, bass, programming) and Renaud Pion (bass clarinet and ...

China Spring High School Band has kickstarted its first ‘Young Artist Competition’ to give students an opportunity to showcase their talents and possibly win college scholarships.

The Little Rock Winds captured cinematic magic with their program TINSELTOWN TUNES at the Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock Thursday, Feb. 27. Conducted by the very entertaining Israel ...

One contrabass clarinet is a nearly bottomless resource of rib-rattling sound; put two together, and you can achieve the sonic equivalent of tectonic friction.

Michele Kuester plays the contrabass clarinet with the Longmont Concert Band played at Twin Peaks Classical Academy on Saturday. The ensemble will play at Carnegie Hall in New York City on May 25.

Apparently “the most recorded clarinet soloist in the world”, Gervase de Peyer nevertheless attached more importance to quality than to quantity. He was a master musician.

District auditions for the 276-piece All-State Band, 214-piece All-State Orchestra, and 601-member All-State Chorus were held Oct. 26, 2024, at Le Mars, Hampton, Independence, Atlantic, Indianola ...

Smerilli performed most of the instruments himself, including the inky depths of a contrabass clarinet, which he purchased and learned just for this score.

And the instrumentation is as idiosyncratic, even for Eastman, a notable eccentric: strings plus three tubas, three contrabassoons, three regular bassoons, three bass clarinets, three contrabass ...