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 ...

Turning pistols into piccolos sounds like the kind of hippie dream that died out with flared trousers. But a group of UK musicians is doing just that, taking the theatre of war and giving it its own ...

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 – ...

A cacophony of phallic-looking vegetables was pressed to the lips of Viennese musicians on Monday for the 100th anniversary of the San Miguel market in Madrid. Known as Das erste Wiener ...

The Valdosta Symphony Guild and Valdosta Symphony Orchestra musicians invite children of all ages to learn about instruments of the orchestra in the annual Tunes for Tots event.

Welcome back to 'Eurovision Explained'. This time we take a closer look at some of the musical cornerstones of the Contest. It's time to talk about burning pianos and synchronised drums in Eurovision ...

The ukulele is now taken seriously, thanks to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Duncan Seaman caught up with them ahead of their Yorkshire gigs. Did you know with a Digital subscription to ...

Ron Davis Álvarez stood on a train platform in Stockholm, stunned by what he saw. The Venezuelan orchestra conductor was visiting Sweden as part of a university exchange program. He’d expected his ...

An orchestra of young musicians from a Paraguayan slum has been touring South America, using instruments constructed entirely from recycled materials. They pulled them from the rubbish dump around ...

Landfill Harmonic is heartwarming film featuring a unique orchestra in South America made up entirely of instruments made from scrap heap rubbish. The Recycled Orchestra is the creation of Favio ...

A University of Minnesota study discovers the wind instruments that emit the most aerosols, and are therefore “riskiest” in the transmission of COVID-19. Bass clarinet and tuba were found to be “lower ...