After meeting at the University of Michigan, five classically trained musicians formed an unusual ensemble and called ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

My father worked nights as the desk attendant at a cheap hotel downtown. It was a thankless job behind bulletproof glass, which was all he had to shield him from demented drunks and screeching ...

To celebrate his 80th birthday, Gervase de Peyer – “and Friends” gave a remarkable concert at the Wigmore Hall. In every one of eight items (plus an encore) the octogenarian clarinettist introduced ...

(Editor’s note: The author was clarinetist of the Manila Symphony Orchestra after the Philippine Liberation in 1945.) During the brief period of time before I knew about the Manila Symphony Orchestra ...

The clarinet was invented in 1700, and developed swiftly. By 1850, it had reached the form in which we know it today. But what were the steps along the way? And how has the instrument changed over ...

A sublime arrangement performed by Berginald Rash and Fiona Gryson Take a moment of solace with our Video of the Day - a performance of Debussy's Petite Piéce by Berginald Rash and Fiona Gryson in an ...

There are multiple “grandmas” on the UCLA gymnastics team. They’re the fifth- and sixth-year seniors who are called so because they have seemingly been through it all in gymnastics. Nya Reed is one of ...