The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is selling its prized collection of string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos made by such Italian makers as Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri ...

Since 2017, the Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara (FOSB), the only one of its kind in the U.S., has been taking listeners on musical voyages around the ...

String instruments made from migrant boats met with sustained applause as they debuted at Italy's prestigious La Scala opera house in tribute to those who perish attempting the Mediterranean crossing ...

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 ...

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 ...

U-Penn Phd.D student Leening Liu works to align the bass in the CT scanner for. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to ...

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 ...