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 ...

This past week saw the culmination of composition, music, poetry and ecology performances in the artistic collaboration known ...

Instrumentalist Mark Wood will perform with the Hillsborough High School orchestra. HILLSBOROUGH — An international recording artist and creator of revolutionary electric music instruments will teach ...

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 ...

International recording artist and Emmy award winning composer Mark Wood, an original member of the multiplatinum selling TransSiberian Orchestra and creator of the revolutionary Viper electric violin ...

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 ...

In the heart of the South Bronx, a one-of-a-kind orchestra is transforming lives through the power of music and sisterhood.

Through a double door decorated with music notes, you’ll find a room designated for the students who pull strings (but are still outstanding students.) The orchestra lounge at West High School is ...