Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music. Andre 3000 released new music for the first time in 17 years this week. But "New Blue Sun" is not what ...

whose album The Man with the Golden Flute she says “changed the trajectory of my life” when she was 11 years old. “I learned most of the songs by ear because the sheet music was too difficult to read ...

Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” (“The Magic Flute”), a wildly popular gateway ... The sound effects are indicated on the sheet music, so she knows exactly what to expect and when.

But it is also nature’s unpredictability that enables the music to surprise the listener pleasantly. In the musical sample performed for The Post by Schwartz on the flute Tuesday, derived from ...

Musician Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, the principal flute of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ... Höskuldsson was hired to his post by then-music director Riccardo Muti in 2015 and began playing ...

in “Flute” with silent-era intertitles to narrate the action. For accompaniment, dramatic passages from Mozart’s own solo keyboard music are played on a fortepiano. It all adds up to a whole ...

To play, the musician holds the long tube of the flute in both hands and blows across a small hole at one end. The holes can be opened and closed by pressing down different metal keys. The flute ...

“The Magic Flute” has enchanted audiences ever since ... and heart-rendingly beautiful music, the opera unfolds as a labyrinth of symbols and possible allegorical meanings that have inspired ...