Todd Palmer is a clarinetist who came across some ballet music by French composer Andre Messager. He liked it so much he decided to make his own arrangement of the music. We hear that arrangement ...

The dreaded "Concours" at the Paris Conservatoire is a rite of passage. For more than a century, the Conservatoire has commissioned new pieces for these end of term musical exams. In 1899, one of the ...