If you were scouting through the internet to find what are the 6 hardest instruments to play for kids in an orchestra, we are going to ease your research with our list. Music has a huge impact on the ...

When Gianandrea Noseda conducts an orchestra, he wants the instruments to "imitate vocal voices … even if they are absent”. He calls this an "Italian style" of playing and in his seasons at the U.S.

Damaged instruments from the 'Symphony for a Broken Orchestra' are coming back into the Philadelphia School District, ready to play. Leo Zhang, a student at Mayfair Elementary, will learn to play a ...

An Austrian musical ensemble that has been around for about 18 years, the Vegetable Orchestra is all about playing sweet symphonies with nothing but instruments made entirely of vegetables. It all ...

March 5 (UPI) --The world's first -- and possibly only -- orchestra to exclusively make music from vegetable instruments was awarded a Guinness World Record after playing 344 concerts over the course ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn about the brass family of instruments — their sounds, mouthpieces and harmonics. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, hosts this exploration of ...

Orchestra director Gabrielle Whitfield leads the West High Symphonic Orchestra on Nov. 4, 2025. At the very end of the West High music hall, 53 students tuned their instruments. It was barely 9 a.m., ...