Despite having his own highly virtuosic orchestra, Haydn wrote his Trumpet Concerto for an old friend called Anton Weidinger, who was a member of the Imperial Court Orchestra in Vienna. Weidinger was ...

Growing up in South Dakota with four older brothers, playing trumpet was a lifeline for Neil Mueller, Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s principal trumpeter. “There was always someone stronger, faster or a ...

The Magnolia City Brass Band. Since its origins in Great Britain in the mid nineteenth century, the British style brass band has become a popular ensemble around the world. The Magnolia City Brass ...

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. Why commission a new work for orchestra? Paul Grangaard had many reasons for ...

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra will perform the American premiere of a new work by one of Mexico’s most prominent composers. This weekend’s performances, featuring Venezuela-born trumpeter Pacho Flores ...

Rachel Duncan will be the trumpet soloist for Frank Joseph Haydn’s “Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major” during this weekend’s concerts by the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With Simon Rattle having departed and plans for a new concert hall in the City of London long shelved, the ...

While the Chicago Symphony Orchestra continues its patient search for Maestro Right and prepares for the arrival of Bernard Haitink as principal conductor, it’s also renewing longstanding ...

Internationally-acclaimed trumpeter Alison Balsom joins Frances Fyfield to study the manuscript of Johann Hummel's famous, and famously challenging, Trumpet Concerto. Show more Johann Hummel was a ...

The Owensboro Symphony will showcase a wealth of classical music during the “Beethoven. Brahms. Haydn. Hooten.” program — the organization’s first concert of 2025 — starting at 7 p.m. Saturday inside ...