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, ...

Learn about the brass family of instruments — their sounds, mouthpieces and harmonics. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, hosts this exploration of ...

Philadelphia's public school system has over 1,000 broken instruments. The Healing Sound Of A Broken Orchestra In a cheerful rehearsal room at Temple University, a few dozen professional musicians ...

They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

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 ...

In a cheerful rehearsal room at Temple University, a few dozen professional musicians inspect the instruments that they'll be playing to debut an audacious piece of music by a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...