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 ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...

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 ...

The Young Artists Debut Orchestra celebrated the Spanish spirit with their spring concert Saturday night. Violin soloists and ...

Syracuse, NY -- Sometimes you have to change the notes and craft a different tune. Budget cuts wiped out about 19 percent of the Syracuse school district’s arts and music staff, and students were in ...