A nearly intact 2,000-year-old Celtic war trumpet has been discovered in Norfolk, a unique find from the ancient world.

None of us alive now — or for the past two hundred years, actually — remembers when the trumpet was not able to play a melody. As loud, commanding and often shrill as it was; prior to 1800, the sleek ...

Years ago, on a rainy night in San Francisco, I got a vivid art lesson. My date and I — let’s call her “R” — had just had dinner and were walking through a steady drizzle in Chinatown. It was February ...