When mellow cellos harmonized the “Baby Shark” theme, giggles of surprise and recognition rippled across the concert hall. When the bold trombone section grooved along on Neil Diamond’s “Sweet ...

Community Chords: String Orchestra Music from Around the World is a string orchestra concert that combines two important pillars of culture: music and food! In a creative twist on a traditional ...

Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford leads the American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City's foremost period instrument orchestra, in a program of much-loved Bach cantatas at the ...

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 ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

More than 300 Belfast primary school pupils have taken part in a school concert with a difference. Children aged between five and 10 played alongside the full Ulster Orchestra in the Ulster Hall. It ...

For the past 40 years electronic instruments have got better at copying the sounds of traditional instruments. But at this year's Glastonbury Festival, a German classical orchestra has been doing the ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Classical orchestras were bigger in size and as instrument building improved so did the range of dynamics in the performance. The harpsichord was replaced with the fortepiano, the precursor to today’s ...