Walter Lawson has built French horns in the mountains of Western Maryland for more than 20 years. Horn players in big symphonies around the country swear by them. But he's getting out of the business.

He’s played it everywhere, from the world’s finest concert halls to small, intimate jazz clubs. He’s pulled it out in airplanes, practiced it in bathrooms, taught it to students and played it for ...

The French horn. It’s the heart and soul of any symphony orchestra, and writing for it always brought out the best in Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss and so many other great composers. But don’t let ...

French horn player Felix Klieser is one of today’s leading instrumentalists, who recently finished a two-year residency with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Felix Klieser is a German professional ...

One of the many cool things about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Mozart Festival, which runs through Feb. 5, is the opportunity it offers orchestra members to shine in the solo spotlight. So often ...

David Cooper, French horn with Berlin Philharmonic and guest artist with the Lansing Symphony this Saturday night. Saturday night, the Lansing Symphony welcomes a Lansing-born soloist that nowadays ...

will be playing twice this week in West Michigan. , is a chamber ensemble that performs arrangements of pop music, including re-working Sisqo's "Thong Song" or Lady GaGa's "Bad Romance." The foursome, ...

In 2010, Kristi Crago was in California helping her younger sister go through chemotherapy. While she was there, her French horn was stolen. Kristi thought she'd never see the instrument again. But, ...

Suze Orman recently advised a young musician to reconsider a big-ticket purchase — a $6,500 French horn — during an episode of her YouTube series "Approve or Deny." Orman's response was direct: the ...