The American Classical Orchestra will launch its 41st season in 2025-26, with performances spanning four orchestral concerts led by Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford at Alice Tully Hall, ...

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 ...

Darlene Dawson spent 34 years teaching children how to play stringed instruments in her hometown of Manassas before she retired. Last summer, three years after she and her husband moved to Orange ...

Internationally acclaimed British double-bass classical musician Chi-chi Nwanoku said she always felt "the odd one out," and not just because she was a five-foot tall woman playing the largest ...

The American Classical Orchestra has unveiled its 41st season in 2025-26, with performances spanning four orchestral concerts led by Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford at Alice Tully Hall, ...

This past Sunday, the Marquette Orchestra walked on the stage of Varsity Theatre to perform its final concert of the school year. April 6 was the orchestra’s first time this year performing as a ...

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 ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

The Santa Maria Philharmonic Society’s annual gala fundraiser “Sips for Strings” took place on Friday night at Presqu’ile ...

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 ...