String instruments made from migrant boats met with sustained applause as they debuted at Italy's prestigious La Scala opera house in tribute to those who perish attempting the Mediterranean crossing ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL) — Emma Dansak, an Auburn Community Orchestra member and string instructor, will host a free string instrument repair open house on Sunday, Sept. 7. Officials say the event is for ...

The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...

The violin, viola, cello and double bass are among the most recognisable orchestral and solo instruments. But there is a particular set known as the "Golden Age" instruments which are arguably the ...

Darlene Dawson spent 34 years teaching children how to play stringed instruments in her hometown of Manassas before she retired. Last summer, three years after she and her husband moved to Orange ...

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 ...

This is the sixth ina 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 instrument ...