The year is 1981. It’s mid-June. Burgeoning summer beckons Cambridge residents from their hibernation against the spiteful New England winter. The Cambridge River Festival, an annual weeklong ...

The Northeastern Connecticut Community Orchestra filled Clark Chapel with gorgeous music on June 10. Resounding off the chapel’s stone walls and high ceiling were works by Strauss, Puccini, Mozart and ...

A 95-year-old Altoona native who has never played a major venue will be featured on the harmonica in Saturday’s holiday concert by the Altoona Symphony Orchestra. Mary Beth Flickinger will play ...

The harmonica is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments: It don`t get no respect. If that classic ad were true that ”they all laughed when I sat down at the piano,” just mention the harmonica ...

After writing his third symphonic piece for harmonica and orchestra, two words crowded the thoughts of bluesman Corky Siegel: Never again. The work of writing for a symphony was too tedious, too ...

The York Symphony Orchestra will welcome “King of the Harmonica” Robert Bonfiglio to the Strand Theatre, combining his classic sound with its symphonic melodies. Bonfiglio, who has traveled around the ...

It happens whenever Corky Siegel performs one of his classical blues pieces. "People come up and they're shocked and surprised, they say, 'You made blues and classical work together.' And I tell them ...

Harmonicist Park Jong-seong, 36, will go on the stage with the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor Baek Yoon-hak at the Gangdong Arts Center in eastern Seoul on June 13. Park has ...

All right. You do not usually hear the words harmonica and virtuoso in the same sentence, but really, it's the only way to describe Tommy Reilly. (SOUNDBITE OF JUDITH DURHAM AND TOMMY REILLY ...