In 1970, composer Gavin Bryars and a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art formed the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an ...

“Physically and emotionally, I’m drained,” said Jay Fishman recently over lunch at a restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. Fishman was explaining why he plans to retire this month after 36 years as ...

The Sinfonia has its roots in 1970 when the Valley Camerata Orchestra was formed at Cedar Crest College, where Birney was (and still is) a professor of music. It was a community orchestra made up of ...

Middle school, with its collision of hormones, hopes and desperate desire to fit in, was not the best easiest time for Jenny Weinar's parents to urge her to join the Philadelphia Sinfonia Orchestra.

The Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra begins its 36th season on a grand scale Saturday with a program that opens with Handel’s lofty “Entrance of the Queen of Sheba” from his oratorio “Solomon.” The ...

DERRICK MAY, the Detroit-born founding father of techno, will be leading the City of London Sinfonia orchestra tomorrow night at the stunning Royal Festival Hall. Founding father of techno…. Derrick ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Although Lanier Middle School is a Vanguard Magnet school for the academically gifted, achievements of orchestra students show that the music program is in tune. The Texas Music Educators Association ...