Robert Lee Watt, the first black French horn player to join a major U.S. symphony, spent 37 years with the LA Philharmonic. He faced a lot of resistance along the way, as his new memoir recounts.

Horn maker has eye, ear for details; Instruments: From his Boonsboro shop, a former BSO member builds some of the world’s finest French horns.

As part of the International Day of People with Disabilities, the German French horn player Felix Klieser introduces the first of three programmes all about his instrument – the horn. He looks ...