His foundation funded the donation through the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation to give more than $38,000 worth of instruments to West High School.

Tim Linhart creates violins, cellos, and entire orchestras from ice, performing concerts inside a frozen concert hall.

They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

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 ...

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (KABC) -- The Philharmonic Society of Orange County is supporting local schools and their music programs. "Strike Up the Band" is a grant program by the Philharmonic Society that ...

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When you string it all together, what you get from a New Orleans class of third, fourth and fifth graders is no ordinary ...

DETROIT – Not everyone has the opportunity to learn how to play an instrument or even own one. That’s why the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is holding an instrument drive to give the gift of music to ...

Benjamin Britten’s much-played score The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was first commissioned for this 1946 film, which was made to inform aspiring musicians about each instrument in a ...