The recorder often inflicts squeaky torture on parents. Music teacher Valerie DePriest explains why it became a staple in music education. When Lebanon-born George Semaan came to the United States via ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Many 80’s and 90’s kids grew up ...

Some of us took piano lessons as kids, or maybe played the clarinet in high school band. And then some of us will only ever be experts at air guitar. But one instrument most students in Illinois have ...

Only one in six children are now learning the recorder at school, new research has found, marking a significant drop in its popularity over the past ten years. A report by the Associated Board of the ...

The recorder used to be an instrument people wanted to hear. As a 1946 article in The Atlantic explained, it gets mentioned lovingly in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Milton’s Paradise Lost. One ...

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Only around one in six children now learns the recorder after a decline in its popularity over the past decade, a new report suggests. However, the paper by the ABRSM, the exam board of the Royal ...