Switzerland: the country of mouth-watering chocolate, cheese fondue and precision clockwork set against the backdrop of breath-taking mountainous scenery. Accompanying all of this is the soundtrack of ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. The hills were alive with the sound of music on Sunday (July 28) as 3,500 people braved the heights of Switzerland's ...

Ohio is not a state known for its mountains. The Hocking Hills, the Appalachian foothills and the state’s other areas of rolling terrain, though lush and beautiful, aren’t exactly the Alps. But that’s ...

The players formed a wide semi-circle at Tracouet above the ski resort of Haute Nendaz in southern Switzerland for the country's annual alphorn competition, which celebrates the musical instrument in ...

West Virginia is no stranger to mountain music, though the variety heard this weekend in Fayette County was a bit different. Sunday afternoon, overlooking the New River Gorge, 10 Alphorn players held ...

Swiss composers understandably avoid chocolate box clichés, but a performance at the Lucerne festival demonstrated the elemental power of the alphorn One of the mysteries of being in Lucerne is why it ...

Have you ever seen or heard an alphorn? For me, it was almost like walking into a dream as my wife and I walked high up into the Colombia Icefields in the late morning of Aug. 3. We were in Jasper ...

A hundred alphorn players gather high up in the Swiss Alps for the 22nd International Alphorn Festival, with their dulcet tones and harmonies echoing around the mountains. The alphorn is a traditional ...