SPRINGFIELD – Orchestral color was on display more than ever before at the Springfield Symphony Orchestra on Saturday evening. Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherezade” are two ...

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids Symphony kicks off its season with a bang. Followed by a crash, a pow and a splash. A Concerto for Section Percussion and Orchestra, composed by Grand Rapids Symphony ...

Sergio Carreno, one of five percussionists, rehearses Toru Takemitsu's "From Me Flows What You Call Time" for two upcoming Oregon Symphony concerts, Sept. 21 and 23. (Brent Wojahn/The Oregonian) The ...

Wharton Music Center continues its Meet the Orchestra Series focusing on the percussion family on Sunday, April 19, at 3 p.m. at 60 Locust Ave. in Berkeley Heights. Designed to introduce children to ...

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 ...

Creative networking among central Ohio classical musicians led to the premiere of a new percussion concerto this weekend by the New Albany Symphony Orchestra. In January 2019, Columbus Symphony ...

Percussionist Andy Cierny has found drummers are sometimes forgotten in his musical field, especially when anchored to the back of a stage space filled with rows of other musicians front and center ...

Percussion soloist Colin Currie plays the Andrew Norman percussion concerto Switch with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya on Friday at Bass Performance Hall in ...

has to replace employees who move away, take other jobs or retire. To fill their spots, the orchestra holds periodic auditions where candidates perform for a committee of musicians and the music ...