On Sunday, March 19, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra will showcase the music of woodwind instruments in a concert at the First United Methodist Church in Elgin. The concert, conducted by Wilbur Lin, will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Learn how the clarinet makes sound and explore its role in the woodwind family. In a hands-on music lesson, Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, ...

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 ...

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 ...