The choice by Berens to issue a collection in the third decade of the 19th century dedicated exclusively to themes from late operas by Mozart seems rather unusual...
There's no two ways about it, playing the flute can be awkward. This can create problems for our bodies - not much else in life requires us to be so asymmetric...
The ongoing digitization program at the Sibley Library of the Eastman School of Music has made available many of the unique resources held by that library...
The opera arrangements published by Schott in the 1820s are the most extensive body of compositions known to survive by the leading American flutist of the first half of the nineteenth century...
The key to conquering all the short obstacles we tried to talk about resides first in searching for what makes them a problem and in being aware of their musical environment...
The Gebauer family is among those large and talented musical families of the eighteenth century, like the Bachs and the Grauns, whose production is the bane of music bibliographers...
Not everything can be fixed at once. However, my purpose in these articles is not fixing whole movements but to zero in on short passages that pose problems for everyone...
CM Sola may be largely forgotten but he wrote an extensive range of music, including for the flute...
Ever since I learnt to play my first multiphonic I have had a powerful, if somewhat perverse, desire to arrange and perform Chopsticks on the flute...