String instruments made from migrant boats met with sustained applause as they debuted at Italy's prestigious La Scala opera house in tribute to those who perish attempting the Mediterranean crossing ...

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 ...

Of the four instruments represented in a modern symphony orchestra string section — violin, viola, cello and contrabass — the cello is the most versatile. In a traditional ensemble context, whether ...

For the past 50 years, Dr. Stanley Gross has been hand-crafting orchestra string instruments in his spare time. Gross, a 97-year-old Greenwich resident, took up the hobby in 1960 during his years ...

The Valdosta Symphony Guild and Valdosta Symphony Orchestra musicians invite children of all ages to learn about instruments of the orchestra in the annual Tunes for Tots event.

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 ...

PESHAWAR: A popular six-member music band has come up with new ideas to enrich traditional Pashto orchestra by adding new instruments that has been either alien to Pashto music or dead long ago. Since ...

25th Season Spring Concert by the Harford Youth Orchestra and Harford String Orchestra at Edgewood High School on Saturday, Apr. 5. Edgewood High senior Timila Jonchhe plays the flute while performing ...