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Johnson led the audience of about 450 local students on a tour of the orchestra as different instruments and sections — strings, woodwinds, brasses and percussion — took their turns showing ...

While guest-conducting Tokyo's NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2010, he noticed that many of the musicians were playing old Italian instruments. "The orchestra had a certain sound, very disciplined ...

The closing concert of the season on Thursday, May 11, at 8:00PM at Alice Tully Hall will be featuring two of Rossini's famous overtures, The Barber of Seville and William Tell; Clementi's ...

A chamber orchestra of 20 children uses instruments fashioned out of recycled materials from a landfill where their parents eke out livings as trash-pickers, regularly performing the music of ...

The Kinshasa orchestra does not have enough instruments so these boys must take 20-minute turns while practicing. Errol Barnett/CNN Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste — ...

In this Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Noelia Rios, 12, tunes her guitar made of recycled materials as she practices with “The Orchestra of Instruments Recycled From Cateura” in Cateura, a vast landfill ...

In this series, the Post looks at classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese orchestra, how the eight different types of instrument are played as well as their history.