They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

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 ...

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Long before audiences notice the sweeping violins or dramatic piano passages in an orchestra, instruments such as the oboe and French horn are ...

The members of Paraguay’s Cateura Orchestra of Recycled Instruments are no older than 20 years of age but these inventive musicians make their own instruments out of solid waste including cellos, ...

Weston Jennings, artistic director for the New Texas Sinfonia, said the event will feature violins, cellos, flutes and ...

On May 22, 1900, an ensemble of 32 musicians ascended the stage at Dallas' Turner Hall for a history-making performance. It was the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's first concert, led by music director ...

DETROIT – Not everyone has the opportunity to learn how to play an instrument or even own one. That’s why the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is holding an instrument drive to give the gift of music to ...

Plan to attend the Department of Cognitive Science Colloquium, which will feature Francesca Brittan, associate professor in the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University. Her presentation ...

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 his ...

It's a visionary plan that still has a million details to be ironed out. But if the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has its way, in a couple years every single Detroit schoolchild who wants to play an ...