This episode does double duty: teaches you all about the trumpet and trumpet playing, while carrying out the secondary mission of Classical Classroom, i.e., the humiliation of the show's host. Trumpet ...

In an excerpt from Jimmy Breslin’s autobiographical novel—his first published work in a decade—the legendary columnist describes his first trumpet lessons, and stumbles upon a scene of heartbreaking ...

When the University of Delaware moved to distance learning this spring in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Prof. Mark Clodfelter said he first thought about the limitations this would impose on ...

I was in the kitchen making dinner recently while my son, Leo, had his trumpet lesson in the living room. I watched him hold the instrument to his lips, then blow a note into the air. “Leo, Leo,” a ...

Politics and music have a strange way of coming together for Dennis Keating, the president of the Nye County School Board who on Saturday was scheduled to head up Hillary Clinton's 55-foot float in ...

Years ago, Barry Perkins brought his trumpet south of the border. Unlike most Americans who just travel to Mexico for tequila-filled good times, he went for a job, and a prestigious one at that: a ...

Brian Lynch is happy to announce the launch of a series of unique online trumpet lessons as part of his new recording project featuring Eddie Palmieri, in collaboration with the innovative website ...

Canadian trumpeter Simon Millerd is one of those musicians who effortlessly moves between genres. This new CD of his is a collection of work that mixes folk, jazz-rock, electronic minimalism and jazz ...

Years ago, on a rainy night in San Francisco, I got a vivid art lesson. My date and I — let’s call her “R” — had just had dinner and were walking through a steady drizzle in Chinatown. It was February ...

Varieties of trumpet and mutes. Photo by Dacia Clay. This episode does double duty: teaches you all about the trumpet and trumpet playing, while carrying out the secondary mission of Classical ...