Who doesn’t love the rousing piccolo solo in Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever”? Its sheet music reveals a crazy roller coaster of notes — over 122, to be exact. It’s an intimidating piece to be sure ...

Sometimes Jennifer Bouton is at the top of the wave of sound produced by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. As a piccolo player, Bouton creates some of the highest notes in the orchestra's performances ...

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 ...

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Fourth of July means we’ll be hearing a lot of John Philip Sousa’s famous military march “Stars and Stripes Forever.” The big highlight comes toward the end, when the piccolos in the orchestra stand ...

The next great piece of classical music may involve a mischievous mouse, a cunning cat, an extended flute and piccolo solo as well as a violent end. At least that was the hope of Hunt A+ Arts ...