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Johnson led the audience of about 450 local students on a tour of the orchestra as different instruments and sections — strings, woodwinds, brasses and percussion — took their turns showing ...

While guest-conducting Tokyo's NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2010, he noticed that many of the musicians were playing old Italian instruments. "The orchestra had a certain sound, very disciplined ...

The closing concert of the season on Thursday, May 11, at 8:00PM at Alice Tully Hall will be featuring two of Rossini's famous overtures, The Barber of Seville and William Tell; Clementi's ...

A chamber orchestra of 20 children uses instruments fashioned out of recycled materials from a landfill where their parents eke out livings as trash-pickers, regularly performing the music of ...

Playing in an orchestra is a selfless act by nature. A musician has to give it all up — control, ego, time, vision — and fall in line with the composer’s intentions and the conductor’s ...

The Kinshasa orchestra does not have enough instruments so these boys must take 20-minute turns while practicing. Errol Barnett/CNN Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste — ...

In this series, the Post looks at classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese orchestra, how the eight different types of instrument are played as well as their history.