Mercedes Bass, the chairman of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra board, is gifting $5 million to the organization in celebration of her 80th birthday. The orchestra described the gift, which Bass is ...

To visit Miller's home studio is to have your soul examined. There, the percussionist sets aside his musical instruments and picks up much rarer implements, including Nepalese bells, Buddhist prayer ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will be back playing its first symphonic concerts at Bass Performance Hall this weekend, in front of a whole capacity crowd for the first time ...

Mercedes T. Bass’ official title with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra is board chair. Unofficially, she is also the orchestra’s biggest fan. The philanthropist recently donated $5 million — to be ...

A second bass might be in his near future. Once Zadinsky finds a buyer for his old instrument, the one that got him through lessons growing up in Seattle and five years at the Curtis Institute of ...

NEW HAVEN -- The second event of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra's Family Concert Series showcases an instrument seldom featured, the bass, when "Greta's Dream" is performed at the Omni New Haven ...

The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has moved its fall Symphonic performances to Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. This announcement comes after the Orchestra was notified that Bass Hall will remain ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...

Dr. Kathleen A. Horvath, Associate Professor of String Education and Pedagogy joined the Case faculty in 2001. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music (Double Bass), a Master of ...

Just a few months ago, patrons of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra heard a concerto for saxophone and orchestra, which is a fairly uncommon pairing. This time around, they will experience something ...

In 2002, London-based nu-jazz collective the Cinematic Orchestra opened its second studio album on Ninja Tune (one of the two leading UK trip-hop labels of the trip-hop moment) Every Day with a ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...