Winter 2026 – Volume 51, No. 2
This issue features interviews with Claire Chase, Gary Schocker, Anne Pustlauk, and curators from Phaoenix’s Musical Instrument Museum. There are articles on Le Merle Noir, the mechanical genius Cornelius Ward, the Special Publications Committee’s newest release in collaboration with Music by Black Composers, getting started on the E-flat flute, teaching musicality, and much more!
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by…
During the 2025 NFA Convention in Atlanta, the Special Publications Committee (SPC) celebrated the launch…
In the grand narrative of the flute’s evolution, the 19th century is often presented as…
In October 2025 Oxford University Press published Anne Pustlauk’s The Classical and Early Romantic Flute—A…
Over the past few months I’ve had the pleasure of spending time at the Miami…
One of the aspects of the NFA that impresses me most is the open willingness…
As the articles arrived for this issue over the holidays, I once again spent a…
When was the last time you listened to the shape of a room? Not the…
Religion, love, and the importance of nature, especially birds, were driving forces behind Olivier Messiaen’s…
The flutist/composer is a long-standing phenomenon. From François Devienne and Franz Doppler to Mike Mower…
In the first installment of this series, I focused on the overlooked middle stage of…
