Performers include a company of 46 dancers and a symphony orchestra.

It is a music like the music from a great organ or a vast orchestra playing a symphony.

Gershwin scored An American in Paris for the standard instruments of the symphony orchestra plus celesta, saxophones, and automobile horns.

The symphony is scored for the following orchestra.

It is the second largest bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, the double bass being the largest.

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, contrabass, bass viol, stand-up bass or bull fiddle, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2 ( see standard tuning ).

The double bass is a standard member of the string section of the symphony orchestra and smaller string ensembles in Western classical music.

With the decline of sophisticated styles at the end of the baroque period, the fugue's central role waned, eventually giving way as sonata form and the symphony orchestra rose to a dominant position.

This is Schmidt's longest symphony in terms of duration and employs a huge orchestra.

For his 1997 release To See You, Connick recorded original love songs, touring the United States and Europe with a full symphony orchestra backing him and his piano in each city.

It is now the only Indian symphony orchestra that functions and performs on a regular basis with a concert standard of performance.

Brahms composed for piano, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and for voice and chorus.

It is a kind of symphony played by an orchestra of both electric and natural instruments and frozen into its idealized form by means of a multichannel tape recorder.

A symphony orchestra is an ensemble usually comprising at least thirty musicians ; the number of players is typically between seventy and ninety-five and may exceed one hundred.

A symphony orchestra is divided into families of instruments.

Professional soloists, a 80 member opera choir, a symphony orchestra and a live audience of 2700 were part of this historic event when Free Will was presented at the medieval castle of Olavinlinna.

) may sometimes be called a " symphony orchestra " or " philharmonic orchestra "; these modifiers do not necessarily indicate any strict difference in either the instrumental constitution or role of the orchestra, but can be useful to distinguish different ensembles based in the same city ( for instance, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra ).

The typical symphony orchestra consists of four proportionate groups of similar musical instruments called the woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.

The most frequently performed repertoire for a symphony orchestra is Western classical music or opera.

The size and cost of a symphony orchestra, compared to the size of the base of supporters, became an issue that struck at the core of the institution.

Music administrators such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Esa-Pekka Salonen argued that new music, new means of presenting it, and a renewed relationship with the community could revitalize the symphony orchestra.

The post-revolutionary symphony orchestra Persimfans was formed in the Soviet Union in 1922.

Nielsen described the symphony as " the life force, the unquenchable will to live ".

" It would " at least provide a stepping stone which will make it very simple for the masses to understand, and therefore, enjoy symphony and opera.

The development presents several ideas that will be used later in the symphony, including a theme based on the Dies Irae plainchant.

This allows for a " cerebral symphony " rather than just a million-fold amplification of the same tune and a " survival of the fittest " process whereby those firing patterns that resonate best with the existing pool of " ruts " will dominate one's consciousness and generate intelligent behavior.

With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

Berlioz's developed a special predilection for the symphony over his career, writing in his memoirs that one movement in particular became a favorite: " If you now ask me which of my pieces I prefer, my answer will be that I share the view of most artists: I prefer the adagio ( the Love Scene ) in Romeo and Juliet.

Current commissions include an opera that will premiere in Busan, South Korea, and a symphony, Symphony for Amelia, to be premiered by the Bach Festival Society Orchestra and Choir in Winter Park, Florida, in October 2010.

" (" In this grand time, that I used to know when it was this small ; that will become small again if there is time ; … in this loud time that resounds from the ghastly symphony of deeds that spawn reports, and of reports that cause deeds: in this one, you may not expect a word of my own.

In essence, it is the belief that a " ninth symphony " is destined to be a composer's last ; i. e. that he or she will be " fated " to die after writing it, or before completing a " tenth ".

The symphony is only a work written by dint of sheer will on the part of the composer ; it contains nothing that is interesting or sympathetic.

" What form my idea will take, whether it will be an oratorio, a cantata, a symphony, or a symphonic poem, I don't want to predict.

Because the rest of the Oxford will reflect many of the ideas presented in this first theme, this symphony has been termed monothematic.

What is not known, and will almost certainly never be known, is how much of the symphony Schubert wrote, and how much of what he did write he gave to Hüttenbrenner.

As in the fifth symphony there is an early hint of the key B-flat in which we will eventually close, since the wind response hits that B-flat as an on-and-off note in an otherwise G major passage.

" However, he later wrote to Emilia Pavlovskaya, " The symphony has turned out to be huge, serious, difficult, absorbing all my time, sometimes to utter exhaustion ; but an inner voice tells me that my labor is not in vain and that this work will perhaps be the best of my symphonic works.

We soon arrive at a passage sounding rather like a chorale, with the violas and cellos softly singing a hymn-like tune that will gradually build up to the first climax of the symphony.

This orchestra also preformes with some of the symphonic band members to make full symphony orchestra which will happen at the end of marching season in January until UIL in March.

" The New York Times, which also detected the influence of Parsifal, and, in the finale, of Verdi's Aida, called the symphony " a work of such importance that conductors will not lightly let it drop.

It will be inaccurate to say that the tonal trajectory of the first movement is directly projected onto the rest of the symphony, a similar tonal plan can be observed:

The second movement begins with the continuation of the tragic sonority in b-minor, as if the movement will be in the minor dominant of the tonic of the symphony.

The key is A major when the first theme enters ; however, the mystery is heightened by notes outside the realm of A major tonality that appear in the melodic line, namely the pitches G, B-flat and F, Neapolitan inflexions that will have large-scale tonal effects that come to fruition later in the symphony.

The cheery and almost pastoral mood of the symphony often invite comparisons with Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, but, perhaps mischievously Brahms wrote to his publisher on November 22, 1877, that the symphony " is so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it.