(From a 1960's interview with Dick Bertel of WTIC Radio, Hartford, Connecticut) Question: Let's discuss some of these other suites. Anderson: Well, in addition to the Christmas Festival which is a big ...

The Iowa City Community String Orchestra (ICCSO) will perform its spring concert at 3 p.m., Sunday at the Englert Theatre. Four of the five works programmed are by living composers. There are three ...

A string orchestra, whose members produced a piece of music from a jigsaw of recordings, has done the same again creating a new sound for 2021. The first composition - Lockdown Loops in June - saw ...

Please note the title of this collection. It does not include symphony orchestras playing jazz compositions. Nor does it feature what is known as "third stream" music, which is the combination of jazz ...

Chennai-based fusion music band Oxygen has come a long way since its inception in 2003. And to make things more special, the band has collaborated with Tenor Strings, a 20-piece string orchestra.

Is this beautiful music, wonderfully played? Definitely. Is it jazz (or anything close to it)? Afraid not. Music for Strings, Percussion and the Rest is chamber music with a classical temperament, ...

When Florence Saltarelli picks up her baton, taps on her music stand and starts counting time, assembled musicians pay attention. Musicians have been paying attention to a Saltarelli with an orchestra ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Eric Whitacre is a justly renowned choral composer. But he did not show himself off to his best effect at this week's Minnesota Orchestra concerts. He made his conducting debut with the orchestra and ...

Each December, the New York String Orchestra Seminar (NYSOS)—one of the country’s most respected training programs—offers exceptional string, wind, brass, and timpani students 16 to 23 years of age a ...