The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...

Last weekend, The People’s Orchestra and singers from The People’s Show Choirs were in Birmingham, recording a new composition celebrating the upcoming Commonwealth Games this summer. But their ...

From the Rijksmuseum through Dam Square and past the wonderful 19th Century Central Station, the city of Amsterdam isn't short of magnificent buildings. To the list of attractions you can certainly ...

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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is just over a century old. It was formed in 1916, originally as part of the municipal government before it was reconstituted as a private institution in 1942. That ...

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 ...

The goal: reinvent the ways that both composer and listener approach the modern classical orchestra. Friar’s work focused on introducing new instruments into the centuries-old ensemble—in this case, ...

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 ...

Watch musicians from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra play and talk about their different instruments. Time to get creative! Creative Lab is an art and design game that lets you paint, draw, build and ...

How many of the instruments of the standard symphony orchestra can you name, off the top of your head (no cheating, now), against the clock? You know what the standard symphony orchestra sounds like – ...