Two Vancouver performing arts groups are celebrating milestones this year. Vancouver Master Chorale is continuing its 75th ...

By the end of the 19th century, many orchestras reached the size and proportions we recognize today, with works that require more than 100 musicians, such as Wagner's Ring Cycle. As increasing ...

By the end of the 19th century, many orchestras reached the size and proportions we recognise today, with works that require more than 100 musicians, such as Wagner’s Ring Cycle. As increasing ...

Mariposa Yosemite Symphony Orchestra to Celebrate 20th Anniversary Season with Concerts in Mariposa & Yosemite National Park ...

Browse all 50 composers and find classroom resources, exciting short films, lesson plans, orchestral arrangements and more.

Last but not least, there are several examples of the Wagner tuba on Europeana. This instrument, inspired by Adolphe Sax's saxhorn, was invented by Wagner to combine elements of the trombone with the ...

The variety in horn history necessitates consideration of the natural horn, French horn, Vienna horn, mellophone, marching horn, and Wagner tuba. A natural horn has no valves, but can be tuned to a ...

During the romantic period of the 19th century, composer Hector Berlioz, author of a Treatise on Instrumentation and Modern Orchestration (1841), further developed the symphony orchestra by adding ...

The Wagner Group’s information operations team, which has played a key role in the group’s activities in Africa, appears to have survived the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – albeit in a reduced form.

Have you ever seen a picture or painting of an instrument and thought, “What the heck is that?” Join us as we count down our top ten most weird and wonderful instruments.