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 ...

Darlene Dawson spent 34 years teaching children how to play stringed instruments in her hometown of Manassas before she retired. Last summer, three years after she and her husband moved to Orange ...

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 salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

When a friend began suffering from dementia, Andy King wanted to help him retain his memory. So, he created something memorable. A ukulele orchestra. If the very idea sounds whimsical — this humble ...

While Paul Monaco will wrap up his career at the Royalton Hartland school district with this spring’s student concerts, he says teaching orchestra has never felt like work. “If you love ...

When opening a high school for the arts this fall, would the Hazleton Area School District also start teaching students to play stringed instruments? That request came from supervisors of Butler Twp., ...