When Walter Gibson wraps his fingers around his cream-colored recorder and looks at the gaggle of second- to sixth-graders trying to mimic his sound, it is not difficult to see himself in their faces.

An art installation in Perth, Australia, seeks to extend the musical output of the late experimental composer Alvin Lucier, ...

The first notes erupted from the cello like a fanfare. Three of them, each longer and louder than the last, bounced off the ...