Amy Carson and Joseph Kaiser in "The Magic Flute", 2006.

The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it’s been making an impact on improvised music for more than 50 years. Let 10 experts take you on a guided tour. By Giovanni Russonello ...

As I write this column, my coffee cup sits on a woven fabric coaster displaying the images of two hunch-backed flute players known as Kokopelli. Most people in Grand Junction are familiar with ...

The flute is one of the oldest known instruments, but it gets little respect. Ever since Neanderthals held cave-dwelling jam sessions on perforated bear bones, humanoids have panned the instrument's ...

A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that ...

A young tenor enters a world enlivened by computer graphics at a school devoted to the composer’s works in this Roland Emmerich-inspired film. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

A flute had never achieved any semblance of celebrity until last Wednesday, when a flute named Sasha Flute launched her very own Instagram page and promptly racked up 40,000 followers. During an AMA, ...

ARLINGTON – While Dario Meguire lay near death on life support in a Seattle hospital in June, the recorded Native American flute music his mother played for him penetrated his unconscious state. “I ...

The "Sound of Baekje" has awakened from a 1,400-year slumber. A transverse flute (横笛), a wind instrument, was discovered at ...

A San Francisco jazz musician says housekeepers at a Tenderloin furnished building tossed out a closet full of her belongings ...

Minneapolis vocalist Lizzo grew up deep in the Pentecostal church, so it seemed natural to title one of her songs "Worship." But the track, like most of what the rapper and singer writes, would never ...