Every musician remembers their first note — for Eliana Fittante, it was on an instrument most fifth-graders can barely coax a sound from.

One of things about living in NYC is that I am exposed to people who <i>live</i>. They live with enthusiasm. They fully experience the vitality that it is to be alive. Many are exciting, inspiring, ...

It's a good thing for Hassan Anderson that his mother, Carolyn, wasn't afraid to take risks. When he was a junior at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, she sold her car to help him buy an oboe so ...

Shea Scruggs remembers the day he first realized the full potential of the oboe. Freshly arrived at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute, he began his first lesson with Richard Woodhams, principal oboe of ...

A young New York musician is asking for the public's help to find his missing oboe — stolen after he played a concert at Place des Arts on Sunday. “My oboe is my life, it’s my profession, it's my love ...

My musical career came to an abrupt end when, at the age of 15, I left the school oboe on a bus. The following four days, before the call came through from the London Transport lost property office, ...

<p>Dr. Nathaniel Whitney screws a “cage” onto Merley’s skull before his surgery in 2012. Surgeons were able to identify the exact location where Merley’s brain was over-firing and causing his hands ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- My first six years as an oboist were spent listening to uncountable hours of CDs — Tower Records was a treasure trove for me. I had an experience at age 17 that changed my insular ...