Robert Lee Watt fell in love with the French horn at an early age. He met a lot of resistance from people who thought his background and his race made a career with the instrument unlikely — but he ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to music that shows off the golden, mellow sunshine of “the cello of the brass section.” In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we ...

Richard Strauss had a life long love of the sound of the French horn, and today we’ll enjoy the Second Concerto performed by Barry Tuckwell. Listen on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Since Richard Strauss' father was a professional french horn player, the sound of the horn was one of the first young Richard heard. That love of the horn stayed with him all his life. This morning we ...

Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1957 [recorded 1949-50]) My French horn teacher was Gunther Schuller, who played on Miles’ Birth of the Cool sessions, and he told me that “on the dates that I ...

She talked about stepping out of the regimental line of male horn players in the Berlin Phil to make her first solo recording. Trio! features music for horn, violin and piano, including a recording of ...

Robert Lee Watt fell in love with the French horn at an early age. He met a lot of resistance from people who thought his background and his race made a career with the instrument unlikely — but he ...

Robert Lee Watt, the first black French horn player to join a major U.S. symphony, spent 37 years with the LA Philharmonic. He faced a lot of... 'The Black Horn': Blowing Past Classical Music's Color ...