Claire Chase was a junior high flute student the first time she heard “Density 21.5,” Edgard Varèse’s 1936 modernist landmark for solo flute. To say it had an impact on her would be an understatement.

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

Many great athletes helped lay the foundation for their Major League Baseball careers when they were kids playing in Little League. San Diego native Claire Chase is surely the first internationally ...

How Did André 3000 Learn To Play The Flute? Dre says he “got schooled by Uber drivers,” since he would often play during rides and learned different cultural approaches to the instrument (it does seem ...

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of ...

The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human society that drank beer, played flute and ...

SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO — Mission Trails Regional Park was alive with its usual music this weekend: the San Diego River burbling in its shady bed, birds singing, cyclists zipping by, breeze pressing ...

President Donald Trump took some time out from his busy despoting schedule to reveal that he was a musical prodigy as a child who played the flute. The flute? I didn’t see that coming. I would have ...