Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- "Hold your head up high and blow." Those were the instructions that Sioux City Symphony Orchestra musician Stephanie Kocher gave to 8-year-old Logan Cain as he tried to play the ...

From Beethoven to Mozart, Ravel and Debussy, the ASU Philharmonia fosters a safe space that transcends mere music with an ...

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...

Members of the Butler Philharmonic Orchestra will give kids an insider’s look at the instruments they play and show how the various sounds come together as “Meet the Music 2″ returns to the Fitton ...

Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

When the Bedichek Middle School Orchestra got on a bus Wednesday, the students all thought they were going to a small performance. "I thought we were fundraising for our summer trip," 8th Grader River ...

This performance is part of the Weis Center's year-long Trees Series. Hailed by the international press as "a shamanic orchestra for a technological age", the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and ...

(CNN) — Ron Davis Álvarez stood on a train platform in Stockholm, stunned by what he saw. The Venezuelan orchestra conductor was visiting Sweden as part of a university exchange program. He’d expected ...