Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

Many of us know the recorder as the plastic pipe that gets handed out in elementary school music class. More closely resembling a toy than something a rock star would carry, it doesn’t have a ...

Songs of medicine men -- Songs related to irrigation and crops -- Songs related to corn -- Songs related to wheat -- Buffalo dance songs -- Songs of the winter-solstice ceremony -- Bow and arrow dance ...

First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. Elementary school music teachers are a feisty, energetic and hungry bunch.

Recorder player and record producer Laoise O’Brien has decided to become a crusader on behalf of her instrument. She probably couldn’t have chosen a better time to take up the cause. The day I spoke ...