Walrus ivory keys? Sheep hair leather? A computer console? 48,000 pounds of pipes? These are just some of the components in t ...

At the helm of the organization is Kelley Rourke, a librettist who has been commissioned and performed by such organization ...

A community is only as rich as its citizens. We remember here a diverse honor roll of people who made our part of the world a ...

While he tries to recover his own instrument, Mark Gigliotti will be playing Mahler's Symphony No. 9 on a bassoon once played by legendary Philadelphia musician Sol Schoenbach.

The Music in the Mountains Youth Orchestra (MIMYO) begins its spring session on January 13 and is now enrolling new students. The region’s only youth orchestra, MIMYO, will begin instruction for the ...

In his Symphony Ravi Shankar explores this passion using the traditional instruments of a large Western orchestra. The sitar and orchestra play melodies based on a raga (a pattern or selection of ...

Can you hear the reco-reco – a percussion instrument that you use a beater going up and down to create the sense of wheels clacking on a track. At the end the whole orchestra slows in TEMPO to ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Drew’s off. Today, we’re ...

Dec. 26 may be Boxing Day elsewhere, but in Columbus, it's the day that Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) comes to town. The special effects-heavy show will be taking place at Nationwide Arena at 3 ...

Barbara Poplawska, a 29-year-old conductor from the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), recently ... they get a chance to look at the instruments live, hear how they sound, and learn to ...