is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new sound is through some very old instruments. The oldest is ...

Ron Davis Álvarez stood on a train platform in Stockholm, stunned by what he saw as the Venezuelan conductor was visiting Sweden. 57° Make wishtv.com your home page ...

“Fundamentally, a conductor’s purpose is to use us as their instrument,” says the Opera Orchestra’s Niemi. “They make all the fundamental choices about a piece of music.” And the range ...

But the moment the music stops, Conductor Igor Markevitch cuts loose ... is that many of them have only a hazy idea of the instruments of the orchestra and of the repertory.

The orchestra glanced at their music, Song of the Volga Boatmen, scored for wind instruments and percussion, poised their instruments, as their eyes turned on the conductor. His baton twitched.

Maestro Michael Sand has been Angelo Moreno’s “Baroque Musical Mentor” for the past 30 years and what better way to express his thanks than by throwing a concert at the Richard Brunelle Performance ...

He said that she could not be allowed to take “space-consuming” musical instruments. While she offered to pay ticket fares for the instruments, the 50-year-old conductor denied her.

The Venezuelan orchestra conductor was visiting Sweden as ... which provides instruments and teaches music to underprivileged youth. Álvarez first joined El Sistema as a child growing up in ...