CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

Tim Linhart creates violins, cellos, and entire orchestras from ice, performing concerts inside a frozen concert hall.

The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...

Benjamin Britten’s much-played score The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was first commissioned for this 1946 film, which was made to inform aspiring musicians about each instrument in a ...

The most beautiful instrument that 60 Minutes producer Michael Gavshon found when he visited the child orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay, was a cello. The body of the cello was fashioned out of an oil ...

If you were scouting through the internet to find what are the 6 hardest instruments to play for kids in an orchestra, we are going to ease your research with our list. Music has a huge impact on the ...

The Columbia Orchestra will present a Musical Instrument Petting Zoo at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, 10431 Twin Rivers Road, Columbia. The event is co-sponsored by Music & Arts ...

SPOKANE, Wash. --- Good news for families with students planning to join band or orchestra in the fall. The Spokane Public Schools board is expected to approve a bid price for the purchase of new ...

As kids go back into the classroom, they will need pencils, paper and backpacks, and those who wish to study music, will also require instruments. Launched in October of 2012, Music Doing Good created ...

The goal: reinvent the ways that both composer and listener approach the modern classical orchestra. Friar’s work focused on introducing new instruments into the centuries-old ensemble—in this case, ...