They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

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.

Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...

Learn how the clarinet makes sound and explore its role in the woodwind family. In a hands-on music lesson, Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, ...

Toby Aronson, the “zookeeper” of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s Musical Petting Zoo Credit: Courtesy of Vermont Symphony Orchestra Before the pandemic, elementary school children interested in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra has intervened. The risk of TOF – total organ failure – has been averted. Following significant renovation to its pipe organ this summer, the Cleveland ...

Since 2018, children in the Republic of Congo have been performing classical music in a culture permeated by traditional rumba.