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, ...

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 ...

In a cheerful rehearsal room at Temple University, a few dozen professional musicians inspect the instruments that they'll be playing to debut an audacious piece of music by a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Together, Wang and the BSO set up an incredibly engaging performance, with sounds that lingered as echoes in the hall when ...

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 ...

Human beings are born captivated by noises. Babies babble, imitating the sounds they hear around them. Toddlers would rather bang on pots and pans with a wooden spoon than play with expensive toys. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the average person thinks of gongs, the swell of a loud bang probably comes to mind. The Nakatani Gong Orchestra doesn't sound like that. Since Tatsuya Nakatani makes most of the instruments by ...

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