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 ...

His foundation funded the donation through the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation to give more than $38,000 worth of instruments ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

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 ...

The marimba has an interesting history in which, oddly enough, Pennsylvania plays a major role. It is one of the oldest of musical instruments. There are records that the marimba existed in a much ...

What is an orchestra? What are the families of the orchestra? Videos: What do they sound like? What is a conductor? What music does the orchestra play? The string family includes the violin, viola, ...

In the Clark County School District musical instrument repair shop, the warble of a clarinet is as common a sound as the hiss of an acetylene torch. CCSD has more than 350 schools, most with band, ...