To the uninitiated, it's the French horn — though that's a bit of a misnomer. To its players and students, it's simply a horn, an instrument that has featured in orchestras for centuries. The horn's ...

The difference can be found at the shows when, as Robert Perlick-Molinari puts it, in the van on the road to the D.C. burbs, "I play French horn really, really loud. That's the number one thing, live.

As principal horn for the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, David Wick is no stranger to solos performed within an orchestrated piece of music. Recently, though, Wick was featured as the orchestra’s ...