It’s the season for giving, and Stephens Auditorium is extending a helping hand to aspiring young musicians. For the second year, Stephens is holding a Used Instrument Drive. Donated instruments will ...

After retiring from social work, Ken Arney wanted to pick up a hobby to fill his time. He picked up a few old music instruments, but instead of learning how to play them, he decided to give the ...

What is it: Play It Forward — Classical MPR's Musical Instrument Drive. People with old instruments can donate them to their local schools. Instruments being accepted: brass, woodwinds, string ...

Logan Tufte, a senior at Triton High School in Dodge Center, Minnesota, stands by a banner promoting his senior project to collect instruments for the school district's band programs. DODGE CENTER, ...

When Harold Smarkola was a young boy he had two dreams: to break the sound barrier and to learn to play the piano. He fulfilled the first in 1972 when, as a second lieutenant at Craig AFB in Selma, ...

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) 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 ...

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...

"I like seeing things that I can fix or make better or create some value for someone else," he said. "Because I knew how hard ...

BROCKTON - Students in the beloved Brockton High School marching band are using instruments that are 20 to 30 years old, said Rebecca Desmond, director of music at Brockton Public Schools. And, she ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Southeast Texas music education program is asking for community support as it works to replace aging instruments and continue opening doors for students. Instruments of Southeast ...