Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

, is a brooding rumble of sound. It's the kind of music that says dinosaurs could crash through the windows at any second. But that's not why it had members of the West Houston Concert Band on the ...

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...