Riverview High School sophomore Riley Russell, who plays string bass, has been selected to participate in the 2022 Pennsylvania Music Educators Association All-State Orchestra Festival. The festival ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa’s talented high school musicians have been busy this week rehearsing for the 78th annual All-State ...

Two very different bassists, Joe Fonda and Tatsu Aoki, each pairs with a different member of the string family to create sonic experiences that stress sonority and explore harmonics. Fonda meets ...

Bassists: Your time to shine! Monster Bass Ensemble is the large bass orchestra that features all participants (need to be able to read music) and is the central focus of the festival. As with the ...

It is hard to imagine the double bass — the lowest-pitched member of the violin family that resembles a string instrument on steroids — setting the tone for the Sufi song ‘Dama dam mast kalandar’, but ...