The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, saddled with debt, sold its collection of rare Italian stringed instruments in a deal that essentially recoups the cost of buying the instruments four years ago. The ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...

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 ...

Jonah Van Bourg's cello sounds infinitely more mellow these days. And ever since the graffiti was removed, it looks better, too. Dismayed by the dreary tone and beaten-up look of a ragtag collection ...

Give them all a try at the Rochester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale's Honk, Squeak, Scratch, Boom. Open to all area fourth, fifth and sixth graders, and their favorite big person, HSSB gives kids the ...

When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra - one of the most famous in Africa - in 1994, they had so few instruments that musicians had to share. They got to play them for only ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...