Making Music

Piano Playing

Plunging into the deep

Bay Area ReporterBay Area Reporter - Mar 11, 2010
More than once, forgetting that this was piano-playing going on, I wondered if Fray had the breath to make it to the end of one of Schubert's protracted, ...  

Violin Playing

An ever-hyped Perlman back at Symphony Hall

Boston GlobeBoston Globe - Mar 9, 2010
But the rub comes when all of this is billed as the greatest violin playing out there. If Sunday's Mozart Sonata seemed, actually, rather lifeless, ...  

Cello Playing

Gorillaz: Plastic Beach (EMI B0032W7CZO) (£12.99)
Yorkshire Post - Mar 5, 2010
But the jewels here are Don Juan, in an ardent account, and Don Quixote, with solo cello playing of the highest class. RC.  

Saxophone

Jazz Tasting Menu, Plate #2: Baritone Saxophone w/Piano Reduction Sauce
Blogcritics.org (blog) - Mar 11, 2010
Plate #2 features the low end sonics of the baritone saxophone and some pretty tasty interplay. Baritone sax (Evans) and piano recorded live at a church. ...  

Singing

Singing the praises of Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg
Washington Post - Mar 10, 2010
'Welcome to Viera, Florida, and the most eagerly anticipated spring training game in Nationals history," Bob Carpenter said at the top of ...  

Trumpet

Trumpet star, WSU Big Band to play film scores
Detroit Free Press - Mar 11, 2010
Terence Blanchard has come a long way in the 28 years since he inherited Wynton Marsalis' trumpet chair with Art Blakey and the Jazz ...  

Clarinet

Museum Sets Grand Stage for Strings and Horns

New York TimesNew York Times - Mar 11, 2010
A Bass Clarinet in C, about 1820, third from left. The collection also has a Benny Goodman clarinet, a standard Buffet model. Bass fluegel horn, from about ...  

Flute

Japanese flute at Holy Cross
Worcester Telegram - Mar 11, 2010
The shakuhachi is a Japanese bamboo flute. Lienhard, who was born in Switzerland, studied with a master of the instrument, Katsuya Yokoyama, ...  

Acoustic Guitar

American Idol
phillyBurbs.com - Mar 11, 2010
I thought his performance (which he performed on solo acoustic guitar) started off in the copycat range, but by the second verse, he started to Make It His ...  

Electric Guitar

Jimi Hendrix's legacy lives on, say local musicians

Washington PostKansas City Star - Mar 11, 2010
Hendrix has been gone for almost 40 years, but his influence on rock music and the electric guitar endures through subsequent generations of guitar players. ...