WITH their barbershop harmonies and beaming smiles, the King's Singers sound and look as if they have been teleported from the 1940s. This is no nostalgia act: the celebrated British vocal sextet is a serious ensemble that is committed to performing new

The last wind instrument to become a permanent part of the standard orchestra was the clarinet, in the mid-1700s. Membership in the club had closed by the time the saxophone showed up a century later. Various composers, impressed by the sax’s wide compas