Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

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 ...

Percussion instruments, like the cymbals and bass drum, were only deployed when composers wanted to evoke the Orient or for some special effect. While the 19 th century saw a great deal of technical ...

“When I was a little kid, a toddler, we had a piano in the house,” said composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, whose “Rituals” for Five Percussionists and Orchestra will be featured on the next Springfield ...

The marimba has an interesting history in which, oddly enough, Pennsylvania plays a major role. It is one of the oldest of musical instruments. There are records that the marimba existed in a much ...

Bringing Music to Life collects donated brass, woodwinds and strings for repair and redistribution to under-resourced school ...

Hernando Youth Orchestra needs musical instruments. If you have a musical instrument you no longer need, in any condition, please consider donating it to the Hernando Youth Orchestra. They can repair ...