EDMONDS — For the first concert of Cascade Symphony’s season, conductor Michael Miropolsky features the main sections of the orchestra. In parts. The Elegie and Finale from Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, saddled with debt, sold its collection of rare Italian stringed instruments in a deal that essentially recoups the cost of buying the instruments four years ago. The ...

Darlene Dawson spent 34 years teaching children how to play stringed instruments in her hometown of Manassas before she retired. Last summer, three years after she and her husband moved to Orange ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. MusicaNova Orchestra announces CONTRAST FOR STRINGS, a concert highlighting the ...

A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...

NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Update: So far, 75 instruments have been donated to the Play it Forward Drive. The symphony has donated 142 instruments to schools and individual students during the ...

When a friend began suffering from dementia, Andy King wanted to help him retain his memory. So, he created something memorable. A ukulele orchestra. If the very idea sounds whimsical — this humble ...

Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...

“There’s nothing else like it anywhere in the orchestra field,” said David Connor, community embedded musician for the Houston Symphony. There was no class at Houston's Hogg Middle School on Sept.