The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra will perform educational concerts for local schoolchildren on October 30 at the Vicksburg ...

Before the timpani became an orchestral instrument, during the Civil War, people used to play on the horseback. This type of drum has a skin which is called head and it is stretched on a large bowl ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Lincoln Public Schools orchestra classes will be able to tune up and try out dozens of new instruments with the new grant they received. LPS was recently awarded a grant from ...

The idea of performing brand-new compositions on the instruments of the baroque era—as the Pacific Baroque Orchestra will do during this year’s edition of the annual Sonic Boom festival—might seem odd ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — It's a story destined for the big screen: a group of Paraguayan kids with little money but a big love of music create an orchestra using instruments made from trash. Using ...

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 ...