A chamber orchestra of 20 children uses instruments fashioned out of recycled materials from a landfill where their parents eke out livings as trash-pickers, regularly performing the music of ...

The audience of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra’s final Taste of the Symphony concert on Saturday, Aug. 30, traveled to ...

The classical-orchestra instrument family as we know it is essentially a creation of the late 18 th century—or more accurately a standardization of a number of competing traditions.

Their Instruments May Be Garbage, But the Music Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes In a Paraguay slum, a children’s orchestra makes do with what it’s got—with inspiring results.

Kurt-Hans Goedicke, who has died aged 90, was principal timpanist with the London Symphony Orchestra from 1964 to 2000; described as the “Paganini of the timpani”, he was a towering figure in the ...

The Venezuelan conductor created a unlikely orchestra for young refugees and asylum-seekers, despite the fact that members spoke different languages and some had never played an instrument.

An ice orchestra can’t play just anywhere, of course, since the instruments would melt during performance. In addition to the obvious issues related to that, tuning would also be impossible ...

The Bringing Music to Life instrument drive is helping students at Denver South High School access quality instruments and expand their music program.

Sound of music costlyHISD middle schools look for ways to pay for required band and orchestra instruments By SAFIYA RAVAT , HOUSTON CHRONICLE Nov 29, 2010 ...