He didn’t know that Beethoven proclaimed centuries ago that the trombone was “God’s Instrument” because its sound was the closest to the human voice. “God’s instrument? Really?” asks the 60-year-old ...

Angry. Sneaky. Really, really happy. Exciting. Those are some of the sounds of the trombone that musician Ross Holcombe taught Philbrick School students last Thursday. As Holcombe blew his instrument ...

Brian Cole originally wanted to play percussion. "Back in the fourth grade, when the students were all choosing musical instruments, my teacher showed us a chart with pictures of all of them, and I ...

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Time now for StoryCorps. Gilbert Zermeno grew up on the plains of West Texas. He came from a big family that didn't have much. They got by on the hundred dollars a week Gilbert's father made picking ...