Amplification, feedback or other modern and electronic add-ons apparently aren't necessary to wrest new sounds and fresh experiences from the humble guitar. Two upcoming events will provide unexpected ...

Classical musicians sometimes have a warped sense of time. For instance, as Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya reminded his audience on Saturday night in his introductory ...

Tim Linhart creates violins, cellos, and entire orchestras from ice, performing concerts inside a frozen concert hall.

Learn how the clarinet makes sound and explore its role in the woodwind family. In a hands-on music lesson, Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, ...

Over the following century, the orchestra slowly grew in size but not much in diversity: Instruments like the clarinet, timpani, and piccolo were added by various composers for their ability to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When the Cleveland Orchestra performs on Thursday, Oct. 31 and Friday, Nov. 2, Principal Percussionist Marc Damoulakis will be playing with water. Not splashing about aimlessly but ...

A didgeridoo and a symphony orchestra? It's definitely on the edge to have the two on the same stage, but the pairing may carry the secrets of survival for the arts. Master didgeridoo player Stephen ...

VALDOSTA — Valdosta State University recently welcomed hundreds of school children to campus to experience the magic of live orchestral music through a special Youth Concert Series event hosted by […] ...

The instrument is believed to be one of the finest tenor violas in existence and the only surviving example of its kind.

Few contest that a centuries-old violin will be more coveted than its newer counterparts, assuming it was well-made to begin with. That’s how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become ...

BERLIN, GERMANY, March 1, 2023 — Sample library developers Orchestral Tools have launched ‘The Sixth Section’—a new sound design competition that challenges sonic scientists the world over to create a ...