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 ...

Two of the orchestra's lower-pitched string instruments, less often soloists than the violin, got prime billing on Thursday night's Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert.

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 ...

On Saturday, May 9, the library will not host animals, but rather a variety of string instruments for children to explore and ...

A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...