Classical musicians sometimes have a warped sense of time. For instance, as Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya reminded his audience on Saturday night in his introductory ...

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 ...

Learn how the clarinet makes sound and explore its role in the woodwind family. In a hands-on music lesson, Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The standard configuration of the symphony orchestra has remained mostly unchanged for the past century. But innovative artists ...

Whether you know it or not, the viewing experience of many of your favorite films was expanded by the orchestral scores that can make or break the biggest moments and set a movie’s tone throughout.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There are lots of different sorts of music and plenty of instruments to play it on. In this clip, watch ...

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 ...

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 ...