Sometimes the oddest couples make the most beautiful music together. Lancaster Symphony Orchestra will host just such an unusual pairing next weekend, when renowned bluesman Corky Siegel debuts his ...

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 ...

Yolanda Kondonassis has played a lot of contemporary harp concertos. Her new recording, American Rapture, features the world premiere of one written especially for her by American composer Jennifer ...

Villa-Lobos: Harmonica Concerto and shorter works (Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica; New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, cond.; RCA Victor). New artists who play the harmonica do not come along very ...

When you think of harmonica, it's easy to consider the instrument in the context of country, bluegrass or blues music. But Tucson composer Jay Vosk hears it paired with chamber orchestra in a more ...

When Emily Levin was a kid, her dad, a Protestant minister, told her bedtime stories. One of these was about the young David playing his harp for King Saul. The music would soothe the king, and drive ...

Harmonicist Park Jong-seong is set to show the versatility of the instrument in his upcoming performance with an orchestra. Park, the first Korean ever to win first prize at the World Harmonica ...

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 ...

Variaciones concertantes Granada City Orchestra Josep Pons, Conductor Alberto (Evaristo) Ginastera, Composer Concerto for Harp and Orchestra Granada City Orchestra Josep Pons, Conductor Magdalena ...

Chicago harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy tours the world with so many bands – among them Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and his own jazz, classical and world-music ventures – that he says he couldn’t ...