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 ...

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is selling its prized collection of string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos made by such Italian makers as Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri ...

Since 2017, the Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara (FOSB), the only one of its kind in the U.S., has been taking listeners on musical voyages around the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. MusicaNova Orchestra announces CONTRAST FOR STRINGS, a concert highlighting the ...

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 ...

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 ...