Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. To play, the musician holds the long tube of the flute in both hands and ...

Now compare that image with Johann Neidl’s engraving made circa 1800, featured on page 27 of the Boston Symphony ... unusual instruments, or other accoutrements to which the orchestra must ...

If you’re performing the Beethoven symphonic cycle — as the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been over ... gather momentum and power as the other instruments joined in. Transitions between ...