The dirty little secret about writing a concerto for piccolo and orchestra is that the whole enterprise is so unusual that a composer could easily coast through on novelty alone. But Martin Rokeach ...

What comes to mind when you hear the word “piccolo” — a chirping little bird? Or the famous “Spirit of ’76” painting of three 18th-century band members on the march — a man piping away on something ...

It took Catherine Payne nearly a decade as the San Francisco Symphony's piccolo player before she played her first concerto with the orchestra. On Wednesday night, she made the most of the occasion.

When writing concertos, composers have always seemed to favor certain instruments. There are countless concertos for piano, violin, and cello. Instruments throughout the orchestra — flutes, clarinets, ...

STAMFORD — Vivaldi’s “Piccolo Concerto in C Major” isn’t traditional holiday music. There are no muted strings that recall peaceful nights by the fire, no chants that sound like twinkling bells, no ...

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You know the piccolo. It's the sound in the stratosphere, the instrument you notice only for its distance from everything else. You don't hear its actual tone so much as you hear its suggestion of ...

The intensely eclectic program the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Thursday night in Orchestra Hall offered the distinct pleasure of featuring two ensemble members in concerto premieres. One work ...

The piccolo doesn’t draw much attention in this noisy world of ours, but it’s getting ready for its closeup. Starting March 14, Chicago Symphony Orchestra piccoloist/flutist Jennifer Gunn will play ...

Choreographer Terry Beeman unites an array of dance techniques and vocabularies in distinctively sensual, meditative abstractions that have earned him a devoted following in the local arts community.