From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! On a late May afternoon, orchestral music filled the Temple Performing Arts Center’s ...

It's the first time in music history a robot has performed such a feat, according to composer Jacob Muhlrad. Combining industrial robotic arms with 3D-printed parts, the robot cello was designed and ...

When Beck starts to sing on stage at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Saturday, July 6, he’s confident that you’re going to love these orchestral versions of songs from across ...

After its 2025 premiere with the Nashville Symphony, Dolly Parton's new orchestral show will keep the music playing in ...

When conductor Osmo Vänskä left his post as Minnesota Orchestra music director in June of 2022 after 19 years, he made clear that he was headed into something like retirement, as he was also leaving ...

For more than two years, Ebonie Vazquez searched to find a mentor of color for her son, Giovanni, now 11 and passionate about playing the violin. She has now found that space at a local church. New ...

Three suburban teens are sharing their love of music as members of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. Merrill Lee of Oak Brook, a 17-year-old junior at Walter Payton College Preparatory High ...

It’s been close to two years since jazz icon Wynton Marsalis last performed in Greater Columbus. Much has changed in the interim. In March 2021, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by trumpeter ...

Is there an cinematic instrumental song more iconic — or more unsettling — than the theme to John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic “Halloween?” The synthesizers pulse in five-quarter time rather than ...

The Star met Darryl Chamberlain around 2017 after the newspaper learned from a tipster that a Kansas City engineer was starting an urban youth orchestra using children who had never played an ...

Former emo kids, rejoice. Emo Orchestra, a live performance made by and for longtime emo fans, will make its first-ever stop in Dallas-Fort Worth next month. Emo Orchestra is a live performance built ...

Being a musician in the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau was a gruesome endeavor. It meant playing brisk marches, under SS command, as other concentration camp inmates headed out to ...