For some people, there are financial barriers that keep them from being able to learn to play an instrument ...

When one thinks “violin,” the images that come to mind are the Stradivari and Guarneri instruments. When one thinks “violinist,” it is usually the superstar concert soloist – the Hilary Hahns, the ...

Since 1997, a beginners class in playing string instruments has been offered to children and adults in London. Lessons are now taught at First Presbyterian Church, 123 Keavy Road (across from ...

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 ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

But Bloomington has a separate company, New Horizons Orchestra — for grownups. Its parent organization was strummed up in 1991 at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Today ...

Sonuscore has announced LUX Orchestral Strings Elements, a free version of LUX Orchestral Strings, the company's flagship $499 library. They say that Elements gives composers the best way to try LUX ...

The Vienna Symphonic Library has announced the release of a new strings library. They say that SYNCHRON-ized Orchestral Strings features the ensembles of 14 first violins, 14 second violins, 10 violas ...

Growing up, I always enjoyed hearing the nicknames given to various musical instruments. We were told that the organ is the “king of instruments,” while the harp is the “queen of instruments.” The ...

If you are planning to learn a new string instrument, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. With string instruments for beginners available in both Indian and western instruments, you ...