Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

"A primer ... demonstrating the range and special capabilities of each instrument of the orchestra, with examples drawn from the symphonic repertory." Performed by ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...

SPRINGFIELD – Orchestral color was on display more than ever before at the Springfield Symphony Orchestra on Saturday evening. Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherezade” are two ...