CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...

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 ...

In the decades since Richard Tognetti became ACO artistic director at just 25, he has amassed some of the world’s most valuable instruments and talented musicians. ‘I’d be nuts to leave now,’ he says ...

This is another in an occasional series that profiles local musicians, actors and dancers who normally are seen performing in a group or ensemble. Just as many couples are meant to be together, so too ...

A violin older than America is coming to Blossom Music Center — and its player says she felt an instant connection.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A single violin or a full complement of strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion: In the hands of Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, it’s all the same. To him, both forces are simply extensions ...