West coast sax maven Vinny Golia brings out a set where he plays the tubax, a new type of contrabass saxophone designed by German inventor Benedict Eppelsheim. A standard contrabass saxophone is a ...

WASHINGTON — Matthew Guilford decided to make a career out of the bass trombone after breaking his arm while playing football for Middleboro High School. The injury gave him more time to practice ...

When Richard Wagner began composing "The Ring of the Nibelung," his visionary opera cycle, he became dissatisfied with a particular musical theme. The solution, he decided, was not to rewrite the ...