Strings, oboes, and horns do this well; the strident, nagging harpsichord, less so. Once major composers like Haydn and Mozart adopted the style, the core members of the orchestra were pretty much set ...

The American Classical Orchestra will launch its 41st season in 2025-26, with performances spanning four orchestral concerts led by Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford at Alice Tully Hall, ...

Darlene Dawson spent 34 years teaching children how to play stringed instruments in her hometown of Manassas before she retired. Last summer, three years after she and her husband moved to Orange ...

A local nonprofit is aiming to keep kids out of trouble this summer through classical music. The Harmonic South String Orchestra provides string instrument training to youth in south Memphis and ...

New York City's foremost period instrument orchestra, has announced the appointment of John Thiessen as its new Executive ...

David Forsman credits his career as a professional cellist to his early introduction to classical stringed instruments through a program at Crete Elementary School in Crete. But that educational ...

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 ...

At the outset of the American Classical Orchestra's March 24 concert, conductor Thomas Crawford joked that the music on the program would be especially suitable for the melancholy among us. But though ...

The works of three local composers, plus the winner of a composition competition, will be premiered alongside those of four renowned classical composers Friday and on June 29 by the New Orleans ...