They consisted of a new arrangement of `` Nutcracker '' excerpts danced stunningly by Irina Kolpakova and Mr. Sokolev, with a large ensemble ; ;

There is an increasing number of published compositions and arrangements for double bass ensembles, and the International Society of Bassists regularly features double bass ensembles ( both smaller ensembles as well as very large " mass bass " ensembles ) at its conferences, and sponsors the biennial David Walter Composition Competition, which includes a division for double bass ensemble works.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

* Contra tempus ( 1967 – 1968 ) for large ensemble

* Haags Hakkûh ( The Hague Hacking ) ( 2008 ) for two pianos and large ensemble

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments.

More generally, if one has a large number of copies of the same system, then the state of this ensemble is described by a density matrix, which is a positive matrix, or a trace class when the state space is infinite dimensional, and has trace 1.

It was not until 1984 that landscape designer Russell Page created a suitable setting for them in a large meadow at the National Arboretum as the National Capitol Columns, where they are combined with a reflecting pool in an ensemble that reminds some visitors of Persepolis.

In physics, emergence is used to describe a property, law, or phenomenon which occurs at macroscopic scales ( in space or time ) but not at microscopic scales, despite the fact that a macroscopic system can be viewed as a very large ensemble of microscopic systems.

* Statistical mechanics was initially derived using the concept of a large enough ensemble that fluctuations about the most likely distribution can be all but ignored.

Mallets used on the bass marimba range from hard, large mallets to accentuate more of a bass line, to mushy soft mallets to bring out the more sonorous bottom ( such as in live marimba ensemble performances ).

Or at least they are not more hidden than the wave function, in the sense that both can only be experimentally determined through a large number of measurements on an ensemble of equally prepared systems.

In mathematical physics, especially as introduced into statistical mechanics and thermodynamics by J. Willard Gibbs in 1878, an ensemble ( also statistical ensemble or thermodynamic ensemble ) is an idealization consisting of a large number of mental copies ( sometimes infinitely many ) of a system, considered all at once, each of which represents a possible state that the real system might be in.

* Canonical ensemble or NVT ensemble — an ensemble of systems, each of which can share its energy with a large heat reservoir or heat bath.

These are commonly seen at external filming locations to feed the cast and crew, and at other large events to feed staff.

A large bronze cast medallion, some 9. 5 by 8. 7 centimetres in measurement, created by the celebrated medalist Valerio Belli in the sixteenth century.

The filming of the series was highly ambitious, with a large cast and much location shooting.

Until high school, of which he attended Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky his featured characters were a large cast of stick figures featured in comedy-adventures like the Barks comics and old movies Don enjoyed most.

The generator was made of a large sulfur ball cast inside a glass globe, mounted on a shaft.

Prospects were daunting: his father had spent a considerable fortune in the attempt to cast steel in large ingots, and to keep the works going the widow and family lived in extreme frugality.

" Her combination of attractive appearance – centered around her large eyes – and somewhat distant and understated manner made her hard at first for MGM to cast and publicize.

It chronicles the adventures of a penguin named Pokey and a large cast of other characters.

For years after large Plinian eruptions, the blue cast of the sky is notably brightened due to the persistent sulfate load of the stratospheric gases.

When enemies attempted to dig tunnels under walls for mining or entry into the city, the defenders used large bellows ( the type the Chinese commonly used in heating up a blast furnace for smelting cast iron ) to pump smoke into the tunnels in order to suffocate the intruders.

The shells ( phao ) are made of cast iron, as large as a bowl and shaped like a ball.

Peckinpah's first big-budget film had a large cast, including Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Senta Berger, Jim Hutton, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, R. G. Armstrong and L. Q. Jones.

Beginning in 1964, the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called " Id ".

At longer ranges, solid shot or the common shell — a hollow cast iron sphere filled with black powder — was used, although with more of a concussive than a fragmentation effect, as the pieces of the shell were very large and sparse in number.

The large cast also included Daniel MacPherson, Thomas James Longley and Joseph McManners.

The TV show Expedition Robinson, created by TV producer Charlie Parsons, which first aired in 1997 in Sweden ( and was later produced in a large number of other countries as Survivor ), added to the Nummer 28 / Real World template the idea of competition and elimination, in which cast members / contestants battled against each other and were removed from the show until only one winner remained.

The film's large cast and intertwining of many different storylines were similar to his large-cast films of the 1970s ; he won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice International Film Festival and another Oscar nomination for Best Director.

The surfcasting poles specifically designed for use with these reels have the reel low mounted as the line is held and released during the cast by the lower hand on the rod, unlike fixed spool or multiplier surf reels, and the lowest ring is of large diameter and around halfway along the poles length.

However, the spin cast reel eliminates the large wire bail and line roller of the spinning reel in favor of one or two simple pickup pins and a metal cup to wind the line on the spool.

Generally, a large treble hook with a heavy sinker is cast into a river containing a large amount of fish, such as a Salmon, and is quickly jerked and reeled in.

It was built on the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School using large silt cast forms.

The bridge is incorporated into a plaza including silt cast artwork and a large bell assembly, The Goldwater Bell, also designed by Paolo Soleri.

Pfeiffer received positive reviews for her supporting turn ; Richard Corliss of Time Magazine wrote, " most of the large cast is fine: Michelle Pfeiffer is better ..." while Dominick Dunne, in an article for Vanity Fair titled " Blonde Ambition ", wrote, " he is on the verge of stardom.

Type foundries have cast fonts in lead alloys from the 1450s until the present, although wood served as the material for some large fonts called wood type during the 19th century, particularly in the United States.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

It has also been observed, in helium 2, that large discrepancies can exist between surface vapor pressures and those pressures measured by a vapor pressure thermometer.

This apparatus will also be used to measure transition probabilities of a large number of other elements.

I also use a small electric hand-blower to dry large washes in the studio.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

The blooms of Ribes and of the willow and sloe are the places where large numbers of our early insects will assemble: honeybees, bumblebees, and other wild bees, and also various kinds of flies.

Large planes juxtaposed with other large planes tend to assert themselves as independent shapes, and to the extent that they are flat, they also assert themselves as silhouettes ; ;

Although a large number of coatings systems, particularly at low thicknesses fail cohesively by the cutting mechanism, frequently a second type of cohesive failure may also take place.

We also see how the results may be presented, although if n, the number of state variables, is large any tabulation will become cumbersome.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

The Austro-Asiatic ( Austroasiatic ) languages, in recent classifications synonymous with Mon – Khmer, are a large language family of Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh.

Afroasiatic ( alternatively Afro-Asiatic ), also known as Hamito-Semitic, is a large language family, including about 375 living languages.

The tiger salamander ( Ambystoma tigrinum ) also sometimes behaves in this way and may grow particularly large in the process.

He also offers a conversion table ( see Cohen, 1988, p. 283 ) for eta squared ( η < sup > 2 </ sup >) where 0. 0099 constitutes a small effect, 0. 0588 a medium effect and 0. 1379 a large effect.

Blind students also complete mathematical assignments using a braille-writer and Nemeth code ( a type of braille code for mathematics ) but large multiplication and long division problems can be long and difficult.

The Sargasso Sea contains large amounts of seaweed and is also the spawning ground for both the European eel and the American eel.

It is also consistent with ZF + DC that every set of reals is Lebesgue measurable ; however, this consistency result, due to Robert M. Solovay, cannot be proved in ZFC itself, but requires a mild large cardinal assumption ( the existence of an inaccessible cardinal ).

During Christie and Mallowan's time in the Middle East, along with their time spent among the many tombs, temples, and museums, there was also a large amount of time spent traveling to and from Mallowan's sites.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.

The government also purchased 1. 3 million acres from large estate holders for subdivision and closer settlement by small farmers.

The second group also avoided invoking the name of Arius, but in large part followed Arius ' teachings and, in another attempted compromise wording, described the Son as being like ( homoios ) the Father.

" Through Methodism, Wesley's teachings also inspire a large scholarly following, with vocal proponents including J. Kenneth Grider, Stanley Hauerwas, Thomas Oden, Thomas Jay Oord, and William Willimon.

Semi-permanent mooring anchors ( such as mushroom anchors ) and large ship's anchors derive a significant portion of their holding power from their mass, while also hooking or embedding in the bottom.

It is thought that, in addition to exuding onto the surface of the tree, amber resin also originally flowed into hollow cavities or cracks within trees, thereby leading to the development of large lumps of amber of irregular form.