Decades ago, Ripley’s Believe It or Not clued readers in about the English horn. The instrument, it declared, is “neither English nor a horn.” In fact, there’s little agreement about where the name of ...
Pedro R. Diaz is used to playing the English horn in the orchestra pit. This time, he is front and center at the Metropolitan Opera. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll meet an ...