Movies have a way of making us laugh, cry, or hold our breath in suspense. Music is a big part of why this happens. A soft ...

Claire Chase was a junior high flute student the first time she heard “Density 21.5,” Edgard Varèse’s 1936 modernist landmark for solo flute. To say it had an impact on her would be an understatement.

The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human society that drank beer, played flute and ...

A classically trained flutist, the singer, rapper and songwriter spent more than three hours admiring the flute collection at the Library of Congress. Madison’s instrument was made for the second ...

Claire Chase, a flutist and MacArthur “genius,” on Saturday afternoon did what only a brilliant flutist and MacArthur “genius” could do: She turned UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall into a giant lung. It is ...

Many great athletes helped lay the foundation for their Major League Baseball careers when they were kids playing in Little League. San Diego native Claire Chase is surely the first internationally ...

SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO — Mission Trails Regional Park was alive with its usual music this weekend: the San Diego River burbling in its shady bed, birds singing, cyclists zipping by, breeze pressing ...