After retiring from social work, Ken Arney wanted to pick up a hobby to fill his time. He picked up a few old music instruments, but instead of learning how to play them, he decided to give the ...

It’s the season for giving, and Stephens Auditorium is extending a helping hand to aspiring young musicians. For the second year, Stephens is holding a Used Instrument Drive. Donated instruments will ...

, is a brooding rumble of sound. It's the kind of music that says dinosaurs could crash through the windows at any second. But that's not why it had members of the West Houston Concert Band on the ...

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...

Composer Miya Masaoka has started playing the "Laser Koto," a futuristic version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, the Koto, that's been around since the 8th century. Masaoka outfitted ...

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

Searching for the perfect instrument to start music lessons? Here’s your chance — if you can afford it. A 311-year-old, rare ...

Do you have an old horn around that you don't really give a toot about anymore? That instrument may be just what is needed to help a Beaver Dam elementary school student develop a lifelong love of ...

Sarah Starbuck is an educator at Thornton Middle School. At her school, she witnesses first hand what the decline in funding for education does for programs like music. “[It] adversely affects kids ...