Born in Detroit in 1951, Paul-Elliott Cobbs came from a family of ministers. “My mother’s father was a minister, and both of my father’s brothers,” he said. “School music and church is where I got my ...

FILE PHOTO: Conductor Ewan Campbell uses a specially developed baton which opens up the orchestra to blind musicians, transmitting its movements to vibrating bands worn on violinist Abie Baker's wrist ...

Jing Huan twirls her conductor's baton nervously in the wings while the brass and string sections of China's Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra tune their instruments. Aged 36, Jing is part of a new breed ...

AMBLER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Baton-making is Mark Horowitz's blood. From his basement in Montgomery County, he's molded delicate sticks for famous conductors for decades. Then Hollywood came calling ...

The hardwood baton used by San Francisco Symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is 12 inches long and made by a retired stage hand in Amsterdam. The stick used by Nicola Luisotti, the San Francisco ...

When he raises his baton to conduct, Richard Pickar brings an internationally acclaimed reputation, as well as a rich musical heritage, to the Galveston Symphony Orchestra. Pickar has been the musical ...

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has chosen its new head coach. That's how Executive Director Eric Marshall described Adam Johnson, the symphony's new music director and conductor, in a press ...

A wooden band conductor's Baton with mount. Held in place by a small loop of string, on a light blue ribbon lined, grainy wooden mount (b), rests a dark wood conductor’s baton (a) used by Dr. William ...