Ezra Somnitz, 2, couldn't control his laughter. — -- Learning to play the recorder is hard for any toddler. Still, when Ezra Somnitz, who has been deaf since birth, learned to play the wind ...

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 ...

FALL RIVER — It's National Play-the-Recorder Day this Saturday, March 15. The Fall River Fipple Fluters will be celebrating the musical holiday at The Ignition Space, 44 Troy St., Fall River, from 2 ...

Whether you were in school 30 years ago or have yet to graduate, there are a few well-known traditions you can certainly relate to. Prom, for example, is practically a teenage rite of passage, but ...

Once a week, every week at primary school, we would gather cross-legged on the classroom floor in a circle, wielding a recorder. The ear-splitting sound of Three Blind Mice (or something akin to it) ...