His band is all strung out. A composer has tossed aside the traditional violins and clarinets and assembled an orchestra entirely of guitars. The music man said the all-string ensemble, coming to ...

(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 ...

As the orchestra begins to tune its instruments, the crowd goes silent. Suddenly, as the conductor waves her wand, a burst of music echoes through the halls. "It's a bunch of people that know how to ...

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 ...

Christian Johnson, a 26-year-old musician and surgical technician, is loaning quality instruments to talented students at West High to help fuel their passion for music.

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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 ...

Learn about the brass family of instruments — their sounds, mouthpieces and harmonics. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, hosts this exploration of ...

Though the Austrian group formed in 1998, The Vegetable Orchestra (once known as the First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra) remains relatively unknown for its experimental instrumental music, and for its ...