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 ...

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, saddled with debt, sold its collection of rare Italian stringed instruments in a deal that essentially recoups the cost of buying the instruments four years ago. The ...

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 ...

Community Chords: String Orchestra Music from Around the World is a string orchestra concert that combines two important pillars of culture: music and food! In a creative twist on a traditional ...