“I know what you’re wondering,” mused Stewart Copeland on stage just outside Chicago earlier this month. “Why is this punk rock drummer playing with an orchestra?” he asked the crowd playfully, ...

Alongside a full orchestra at the 2023 Red Bull Symphonic, Metro Boomin proved himself as a pivotal instrument. Thursday night (Oct. 26) in Hollywood, Calif. at the Dolby Theater, the 30-year-old ...

Capturing the sound of a full orchestra, choir, or big band is one of the most rewarding (and demanding) tasks in audio production. From mic placement to room acoustics, there’s very little margin for ...

Who says you can’t teach an old Dan new tricks? Steely Dan, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act led by singer-keyboard player Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker, played the Hollywood Bowl on ...

Osmo Vänskä played understudy for his own orchestra when Russian guest conductor Dima Slobodeniouk bumped up against COVID-related visa and travel restrictions. Jon Kimura Parker, the orchestra’s ...

Post-metalcore giants Architects have announced the details of a world-exclusive global livestream event, set to take place this coming December. It’s such an important part of music in not only the U ...

I believe a single violin played by a virtuoso represents the pinnacle of human creativity because it can represent so purely every emotion. Such a sweet, sweet sound that simply cannot be compared to ...

An orchestra sits together for the first time in over a year. All students are masked — even winds and brass players have peculiar face coverings closing around the head joints of their instruments.

While on tour last fall in support of their symphonic-themed album Synthesis, Evanescence documented a concert they held with accompaniment from a full orchestra. They performed a number of songs from ...

Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Fabio Luisi, bottom-left, conducts members of the DSO and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No.1 in D Major, Friday evening, April 30, 2021 ...

In conducting his first full-length opera in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, music director Thomas Søndergård has pulled off a stunner, with fireworks singing from not only a terrific host of ...

Music director Fabio Luisi conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Aaron Copland's Organ Symphony in the season opening at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on Sept. 16, 2021. Lola Gomez / ...