EDMONDS — Just a month past its holiday pops concert, the busy Cascade Symphony Orchestra begins the new year with a concert Monday featuring French hornist Jeffrey Fair. Fair, the principal horn of ...

Every orchestral instrument has its Everest to climb, and for the French horn, it’s Robert Schumann’s beautiful but brutal “Konzertstuck,” a concerto for four horns and orchestra. This Saturday’s ...

The modern French horn, with its complex tubing and finger keys at the center, has come a long way from its hunting party origins. Orchestral instruments don't come more treacherous than the French ...

The French horn. It’s the heart and soul of any symphony orchestra, and writing for it always brought out the best in Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss and so many other great composers. But don’t let ...

What happens when you get about 40 French horn players together in one room? In the Nutmeg state, they band together to create a powerful sound, while raising funds for a powerful cause. The ...

Bruce Lawson can be remembered for bringing some music into the world through his meticulous work of shrinking and expanding brass and applying his engineering background to create different designs.

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A musician in the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra is pleading for help after she lost one of “the most valuable possessions” she owns: her French horn. Jamie Sanborn — who ...