Doug Waddell with PSG alumni, June 7, 2015 Where do you find Doug Waddell, assistant principal percussionist at Lyric Opera, when he’s...

What makes Bill Denton, principal trumpet, exceptional in the Lyric Opera Orchestra? Naturally, his outstanding trumpet playing, but in...

Yes, the title is shamelessly lifted from Liam Neeson's character in the movie Taken. No, the particular set of skills being addressed...

It’s a memorial on Des Plaines St., namesake to one of our sister opera companies in Chicago and a busy brewpub in the West loop. ...

During the summers I am the associate concertmaster of the Glimmerglass Opera Festival Orchestra in upstate New York. This year's busy...

I was born in Minnesota, where my father was a violinist in the Minnesota Orchestra. He had also played in the Pittsburgh and Cleveland...

No, folks, I am not having a mid-life crisis! I am simply helping maintain what has become a long-standing family tradition, arguably as...

The following are excerpts from a recently published ARTSBLOG by Americans for the Arts: Every year the Indiana University Lilly Family...

If you look into the orchestra pit and take note of the strange contortions into which we twist to play our various instruments, you will...

As I sit here right now, I am aware of a sharp pain in my neck when I turn to the left, lower back tenderness, and a persistent cramping...

Fritz’s summer music plans take him to St. Paul, MN and Santa Cruz, CA. On June 5-6, he played Dvorak’s Legends with the Saint Paul...

For the past 25 years Door County, WI has been the home of Midsummer’s Music Festival featuring chamber music of all kinds in a wide...

Ahh, summer in Chicago! It's a beautiful city in which to live and work this time of year, despite eternal re-routing to avoid...

Twenty-five years ago Lyric Opera cellist Laura Deming and several orchestra colleagues performed the opening concerts launching The Pine...

On Monday, May 18, a trio from the Lyric Opera Orchestra, Concertmaster Robert Hanford, guest guitarist Steven Roberts, and myself,...

For many summers I have traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to participate in the Grand Teton Music Festival (gtmf.org) . It is a music...

Around the middle of June every year my family packs up our dog, two cats, two children, a viola, a bassoon and a contrabassoon, and...

Hello from sunny San Diego! Since the end of the Opera season I have been doing a lot of traveling for work. As a proud Portland native...

Last year my family had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Panama. The main purpose of our visit was to feed the passion of our son...

Last winter college sophomore Olivia Boen worked as an intern for Lyric Opera’s Ryan Opera Center. It was a perfect fit with her being a...