Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

Over the following century, the orchestra slowly grew in size but not much in diversity: Instruments like the clarinet, timpani, and piccolo were added by various composers for their ability to ...

This performance is part of the Weis Center's year-long Trees Series. Hailed by the international press as "a shamanic orchestra for a technological age", the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and ...

For Tim Linhart, ice is more than a sculpting material. It is an acoustic medium capable of producing tones with remarkable purity and clarity. As the founder of Ice Music, he has spent more than two ...