Less Common Instruments
Performances of unusual woodwind and brass instruments
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton – Corrine, Corrina
Jazz quintet with guest guitar soloist
Sweet Georgia Brown – Wynton Marsalis Quintet Featuring Mark O’Connor and Frank Vignola
Jazz quintet with guest violin soloist.
Flautist Thomas J. Wible plays The Great Train Race
Listen to flutist Thomas J. Wible perform the contemporary flute solo The Great Train Race by Ian Clarke.
Learn About the Flute Family Tree!
A Brief History of the Flute
Linsey Pollak and the Carrot Clarinet
Watch as Linsey Pollak turns a carrot into a clarinet using an electric drill and a saxophone mouthpiece.
Amélie Brodeur and Flute Basics
9 Year Old Flautist Plays the Flight of the Bumblebee
Listen to nine year old flautist Emma He demonstrate circular breathing as she plays Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee!
Chicago Trilogy
"Chicago Trilogy" by Michael J. Miles on banjo, and Lloyd Brodnax King on flute.
Essential Elements Interactive Website for Band and Orchestra
Mariachi Vargas – El Cascabel
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan performing El Cascabel during the 15th Annual Mariachi Vargas Concert in San Antonio, Texas on November…
Las Tres Huastecas – Mariachi Cobre
Mariachi Cobre at the 2012 Las Vegas Mariachi Conference Concert at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las…
El Son de la Negra, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
Let's shout out loud VIVA MEXICO with this video of "Son de la Negra" masterfully interpreted by #ElMejorMariachiDelMundo
Women in Mariachi – TEDx
Mayra Garcia began her mariachi studies at the age of 12 in the La Joya ISD where she teaches now.
Richard Mata: Mariachi, my identity and passion Tedx Talk
Richard Mata is an advocate of Mariachi music. It is a universal music that is embraced by Asia, Europe and…
Mozart symphony no 40, first movement
The first movement of Mozart's Symphony no.40 in G minor.
West Music Website
The early development of mestizo folk music in Mexico is largely undocumented, making speculative any theories on the early evolution…