Pat Hanley’s hand-decorated Paetzold contrabass recorder stands watch as she switches to a viola de gamba during the Bloomsburg Early Music Workshop in 2024. The annual celebration of medieval, ...

When you think of a recorder, what instrument comes to mind? "Many people think of the recorder as this screechy little plastic soprano that they had in third-grade," says Zoe Tokar with a little ...

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual In the 2022 film Alice, the titular heroine – a slave ...

A fujara is (wait for it…) a large Slovak folk shepherd’s overtone fipple flute. Still not sure what it is? Here’s a bit more detail: the fujara is essentially a large woodwind instrument, in the same ...

WESTPORT -- Elise Jaeger's grandmother gave her a recorder in 1948, telling her to "make good use" of the instrument. Although it took a few decades, Jaeger, a Swiss immigrant, became impassioned ...

With great symphony, opera, ballet and theater, the performing arts in Birmingham are well-equipped. Bu early music -- that is, period performance before 1750 -- remains a glaring deficiency. On ...