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 ...

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 ...

A group of investors, including businessmen who are twin brothers and amateur violinists, have agreed to buy a controversial collection of rare string instruments from the New Jersey Symphony ...

CHRIS GOSPER OFTEN heard fellow musicians complain that there were no opportunities to perfect and perform their music during the summer, when many local orchestras take a break. The principal violist ...

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BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Sadie Schroeder grew up wanting to play the violin. “I felt like at the time, it was seen as an expensive thing,” Schroeder said. “Like it was something for rich people to do.” ...

The financially struggling New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is selling its prized collection of “Golden Age” string instruments, four years after acquiring them for $17 million from a benefactor who ...

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 ...