Don’t sleep on a symphony orchestra’s bass drum. When the North State Symphony was performing “Firebird” by Stravinsky at the Cascade Theater in Redding, Calif., a sleeping woman was startled by the ...

The Concerto for Bass Drum and Orchestra was premiered by British percussionist Joby Burgess and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rossen Milanov. Burgess demonstrates an astonishing ...

Adversity has come to Donald Miller in abundance. So, too, though, has happiness. Despite having faced almost every manner of obstacle, the longtime Cleveland Orchestra percussionist today stands as ...

The 2013 Seaport Music Festival came to a close on Friday (6/28) with its biggest show (and crowd) of the season: Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Bass Drum of Death, who were making the penultimate stop ...

Russia's drone strikes have changed the way Ukraine sounds. A youth orchestra outside Kyiv has been listening, as NPR's Joanna Kakissis reports. JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE: On most nights, 14-year-old ...

Fabio & Grooverider will headline a one-off show alongside the Outlook Orchestra highlighting the history of drum 'n' bass next year. Covering a rich 25 years of the genre's history, the performance ...

A youth orchestra in the Kyiv region composes a symphonic poem, re-creating the sound of wartime nights in Ukraine.