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 ...

Conductor Elizabeth Young said the orchestra was able to secure the set of four giant kettle drums, worth more than $20,000, thanks to the generosity of the Queensland Government and the Gambling ...

Performances in N.Y.C. With David Geffen Hall under renovation, the orchestra — and eight of its cellos, six double basses, six timpani and two grand pianos — must move from hall to hall.

Goedicke had a collection of more than 200 pairs of timpani sticks, famously selecting those for each orchestral entry from a huge tray like a high-class dentist selecting his tools. Only one pair in ...

Pity the poor percussionist who needed to rent a timpani last Saturday night! Most of Vancouver’s kettledrums—nine, in total—could be found at the Orpheum Annex, with six of them in a neat semi-circle ...

Their natural habitat might be the orchestra, but that doesn't mean the timps don't also have a place in more contemporary contexts… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra continues its Masterworks Series with "Sacred Structures" on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. in the historic Maryland Theatre in downtown Hagerstown. "Sacred ...

Tributes have poured in to a “beloved” founder member of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Caroline Garden, who played timpani with the orchestra from its launch in 1974 and was also one of the longest ...