Sir Roger Norrington, conductor who championed period instruments and called vibrato a ‘modern drug’ A Norrington concert was an unusual experience, the performance often peppered with chummy ...

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PBS, NPR funding cuts are approved by Congress. Will Elmo be just another casualty of the GOP culture war?

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The powers at Netflix have combined, and now Captain Planet is set to return to screens. The streamer will adapt the cartoon hero from the ’90s as a live-action series. It has been a long and ...

Khloé Kardashian has gotten a lot of backlash over the years for her use of Photoshop and FaceTune on Instagram, but apparently she's editing her pics less. Speaking on her podcast, Khloé in ...

Netflix has released the first trailer for Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed, the adults-only comedy from Sony Pictures Animation that almost never saw distribution but will soon be available in ...

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

That's when a French-born instrument-maker named Arnold Dolmetsch sparked a recorder revival. He began promoting it as an instrument for teaching music in schools. Dolmetsch and Carl Orff, the ...

In praise of the humble recorder — a gateway instrument for millions of schoolchildren The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools.

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. A ...