Kalush Orchestra, Ukraine’s entry into the Eurovision Song Contest, took top honours at the annual music competition, and traditional woodwind offered some help along the way. On Saturday Ukrainian ...

Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MC: Now sitting behind the strings and wearing green shirts, you find a family of instruments that are ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. This section of the orchestra got its name from the fact that many of its ...

"A primer ... demonstrating the range and special capabilities of each instrument of the orchestra, with examples drawn from the symphonic repertory." Performed by ...

The eighth annual Woodwind World concert, created by music professor Gary Gray, will take place in Schoenberg’s Jan Popper Theater Thursday night. UCLA music professor Gary Gray said the instant ...

Making music with other people is lots of fun. You can use musical instruments, your voice, body percussion and found sounds to make music together. YolanDa and her Mighty Music Makers have come to ...

The flute is very interesting, it is a member of the woodwind instrument family but it’s made of metal. There are thirteen soloists in the orchestra so we feature in almost every single piece, except ...

Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...