Dr. Ajit Abeysekera has been dreaming of establishing an orchestra made up entirely of wind instruments for nearly 20 years. Now, thanks to the sponsorship of the Dr. Earle de Fonseka Trust and the ...

Orchestral ensembles have faced many challenges when starting to perform again during the COVID pandemic, and contamination is a chief concern: specifically, whether wind instruments are vectors of ...

The third concert of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra's (SCO) Virtuoso Series of chamber concerts was devoted to the plangent sounds of Chinese wind instruments, focusing on the dizi, sheng and suona.

In the past few years there have been several studies that measure how wind instruments spread aerosols. The information has been used to create guidelines for orchestra and band rehearsals, where ...

Trumpet players create about 2,500 aerosol particles per liter of air that flows through their instrument. HERBERT NEUBAUER/AFP via Getty Images To stop microbe-carrying droplets from spreading in an ...

The Syrian Wind Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Ihab Quteish, presented an evening of wind-ensemble music at the Drama ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

The Colombo Wind Orchestra’s second concert for the year - ‘Movie Extravaganza’ will be on Saturday, September 7 at 7 p.m. at the Bishop’s College Auditorium. Conducted by Maestro Keiko Kobayashi, the ...

The Cal Poly Humboldt Department of Dance, Music and Theatre will present the Wind Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Fulkerson Recital Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata.

Russell Crann, the English Schools' Orchestra course director, who is joining an academy in Cheltenham as head of music next month, said: “We are hoping that having seen studies like these, the ...

Those playing trumpets and oboes are more likely to spread airborne diseases, while the risk in playing a bass clarinet, involved in a recent Covid-19 infection that resulted in the quarantine of more ...

Surprising new research reveals brass and woodwind players are at greater risk of developing a respiratory illness, because of bacteria build-up within their instruments. The increased risk, according ...