Unlike most musicians in the Philadelphia Orchestra, Angela Zator Nelson of Media does not play one instrument such as the violin or cello. Instead, as a percussionist, she is adept at playing an ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

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

When the Philadelphia Orchestra presents a concert this Saturday evening June 1, Angela Nelson of Media will be in her usual spot in the percussion section near the back of the stage. Unlike most of ...

Orchestral percussionists are normally at the rear of the orchestra, surrounded by an assortment of drums, cymbals, gongs and xylophones. But a new concerto composed by Gabriel Prokofiev, grandson of ...

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 ...

Drums are among the world’s oldest musical instruments, and can be played to dictate the rhythm of a piece of music. In traditional Chinese folklore, they are also thought to “scare away bad things”, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to the varied, explosive, resonant sounds of instruments struck, shaken, pounded, scratched. In the past, we’ve chosen the five minutes or so ...