Montreal Symphony Orchestra launches education programme for children
Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) music director Kent Nagano announced the launching of a new education programme for young children this past week to introduce them … Read more
Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) music director Kent Nagano announced the launching of a new education programme for young children this past week to introduce them … Read more
A violin carved out of a cigar box by a German soldier during the First World War is soon to go on exhibition in Dresden, … Read more
Researchers at University of Washington released a dataset of classical music pieces called MusicNote Wednesday that facilitates machine learning of note patterns and automated note … Read more
The cleverly-named 92 Keys is a piano-violin duo made up of Trevor Loucks and Crista Guthrie. Loucks got the idea for shooting a music video … Read more
Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh is currently touring with a 60-minute show called “The Home Within,” which combines music and visual art to tell the story of … Read more
Findings from a study are helping researchers understand why music lessons are beneficial to children with autism and ADHD. After assessing 23 children, researchers identified … Read more
Research suggests that babies brought up bilingual find it easier to pick up different musical notes than their monolingual counterparts. The study compared babies brought … Read more
Today is Remembrance Day or Armistice Day, marking the anniversary of the conclusion of hostilities in World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in … Read more
Britain’s BBC Philharmonic was teaming up with the Orchestras For All to engage with young classical musicians facing challenging circumstances. BBC Philharmonic musicians joined in … Read more
Children aged between 8 and 16 experience lower levels of depression if they receive music therapy. That’s one of the main findings to come out … Read more
Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins performed a rendition of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” to first-class passengers on a British Airways flight to Russia. Jenkins was joined … Read more
A violin made in the 1950s out of one of Winston Churchill’s cigar boxes sold for over £6,000 in a recent auction. Self-taught violinmaker William … Read more
A composer was in the Antarctic with a scientific exhibition to collect data that will be used in the creation of a piece based on … Read more
Norman Malone almost lost his life in a tragic incident at the age of 10. Although he was paralyzed in one arm, he didn’t stop … Read more
To mark the birthday of Georges Bizet, who was born on this day in 1838 and is best known for composing Carmen, how about this … Read more