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 ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Unlike in the past, today, most of the symphony orchestras have a pianist. Although it is not one of the must-have instruments in an orchestra, piano found its place on our list. This acoustic and ...

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 ...

Lindsay Fulcher’s parents loved music. They sang and played and even took part in a bell choir at their church. They were not classically trained. And that was the point. Fulcher did get that ...