A New Year's Eve production at the Metropolitan Opera and an intensive string workshop were among the highlights. Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic and the Jazz at Lincoln Center ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Members of the Second String Orchestra arrived at an outreach performance at Manhattan Bible ...

About a decade ago, when New Albany teenager Redd Ingram signed up for Urban Strings Columbus, he was already pretty serious about playing the double bass. Ingram had learned the instrument when he ...

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 ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...

Please note the title of this collection. It does not include symphony orchestras playing jazz compositions. Nor does it feature what is known as "third stream" music, which is the combination of jazz ...