A clarinet isn't the kind of instrument you expect to find in a Van Halen track, and yet it turns up in this 1981 classic.

Mark Simpson delivers gauzy luminosity and punchy tone in Gavin Higgins’s exquisite new work, conducted with spellbinding pacing by rising star Adam Hickox alongside spirited accounts of Britten and S ...

I look at my clarinet sometimes and think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. As Ian Dury might have sung had he played the clarinet, "Hit me with your licorice stick.

Have you ever shown up to band practice after a long break and looked over the row right in front of the conductor? There is a long line of people holding black tubes, and before you can even count ...

Learn how the clarinet makes sound and explore its role in the woodwind family. In a hands-on music lesson, Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, ...

Goodman played the clarinet even "during the commercial breaks of the World Series," according to one of his daughters. Bettmann / Corbis In the hierarchy of musical instruments, the clarinet tends to ...

Taking advantage of the new expressive possibilities opened up by improvements in the design of the clarinet, Mozart created a concerto of exquisite beauty — one of the last works he would ever write.

Transformations and Further Passages, a lively new album by Germany's The Clarinet Trio, revives tunes written by German jazz composers in the 1950s and '60s. This is FRESH AIR. In modern jazz and ...

RECORDING OF “CHINA BOY” PERFORMED BY BENNY GOODMAN. Rachel Edelson: There's so much lore around that concert, as indeed there ought to be. Jon Hancock: It was busy outside of Carnegie Hall. Rachel ...