PORT ANGELES — Eighty years ago, the renowned 20th-century composer Benjamin Britten created music for his beloved: the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. This is a beautiful work, said horn player ...

This week’s RPO Philharmonics Series offering serves up a great night for lovers of the horn. Thursday night’s performance — which repeats Saturday — featured three 20th-century works, beginning ...

Mahler, who grew up near a military barrack, would have been quite familiar with the sounds of many different brass instruments. The opening solo of his Symphony No. 7 is the only music Mahler ever ...

As "a major new Britten interpreter" (New York Times) with two hit Britten albums to his name, tenor Nicholas Phan is set to be a prime mover in this year's celebrations of the English composer's ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This tenor horn was made around 1878 ...

The third of Britten's five canticles was written following the Blitz raids on London in 1940. It is an extremely dark work, full of the disillusions of World War II and the failure of man, but also ...