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 ...

In the early '80s, an orchestra launched in Gainesville. It had no formal place to call home, opening its first performance within the walls of the University Memorial Auditorium on the University of ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

As part of Classic FM’s 30th birthday celebrations, we have published a new interactive book, The Very Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – the perfect introduction to orchestral music for the ...

A key composing skill is understanding the sounds that musical instruments make and how they can combine together to create a sound, that you want for your composition. A violin is the highest pitched ...

What began as a largely synth-driven, hybrid score for Epic Pictures’ new sci-fi film, Space/Time, took an unexpected turn ...

Orchestral Tools' latest library is called Sångara, and features 70 southeast Asian instruments, some of which have never before appeared in a sample collection before, apparently. Sångara is ...

The orchestra said the free performances "reflect the orchestra's long standing commitment to accessibility, education, and ...

Music can come from surprising places—even zoo animal enclosures. One group of (human) performers is proving that you don’t even need conventional instruments to make melodies. The Vienna Vegetable ...