This summer the Eastman Music Company, in consultation with musicians of the Orchestra, will unveil a new line of instruments, starting with strings and expanding later into other families of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"A primer ... demonstrating the range and special capabilities of each instrument of the orchestra, with examples drawn from the symphonic repertory." Performed by ...

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 ...

The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...

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 ...