It’s intermission during the final dress rehearsal of Los Angeles Opera’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The invited audience, a potpourri of students and seniors, are milling about in the ...

The harmonica is one of the easiest instruments to learn, but mastering it to a level approaching players like Toots Thielemans and Sugar Blue and can take many years. You may have seen blues players ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs with prominent harmonica usage. When bands known more for hard-charging noise than toe-tapping hooks compose ...

Adam Glasser has forged his career in jazz by re-interpreting classics from South Africa on his chromatic harmonica, a surprisingly challenging instrument he never expected to take up. “Harmonica can ...

Harmonicas were commonly called “French harps” or “mouth organs” and mountain men played them superbly. Some still do, though such old-fashioned music is not nearly as common as it was before and ...