Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists -- the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine -- but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.

The orchestra on the other hand is more repetitive and pulse like: the left hand continually plays the high A and it is not until the 5th measure where another note is added, but the A continues to be played throughout always on the off beat.

As sound was added to silent film, the virtuoso orchestra became a key component of the establishment of motion pictures as mass-market entertainment.

In 1912, Ravel's Ma mère l ' oye was performed as a ballet ( with added music ) after being first transcribed from piano to orchestra.

In his 1925 work for two pianos and large orchestra, Heitor Villa-Lobos added to his score instructions to the pianist to insert pieces of paper between the strings and the hammers to attain a certain sonority.

" Noting that modern music was central to the work of Davis and the orchestra, Allison added that under Davis the orchestra took part in " once-in-a-lifetime projects such as Anthony Payne's completion of Elgar's Third Symphony.

* Krzysztof Penderecki: Ciaccona in memoria Giovanni Paolo II per archi ( for string orchestra ) from Polish Requiem ( added in 2005 ).

As needed, the size of the orchestra pit can be decreased and another row of 35 seats added at the front of the auditorium.

Build-a-Tune: The orchestra played a tune starting with minimal instrumentation and gradually added more until it became a full orchestral arrangement.

New writers were added, including Flying Tiger ace Robert T. Smith, along with an orchestra and a live audience.

In 2007, a collage of Hannigan's music entitled Welcome to Hogwarts was added to Video Games Live debuting in London at the Royal Festival Hall on 22 October 2007, and featuring the Philharmonia orchestra.

After 1603, a basso continuo was added to the already considerable forces at San Marco — orchestra, soloists, choir — a further step towards the Baroque cantata.

Later these conjuntos added piano, other percussion instruments, more trumpets, and even dance orchestra instruments in the style of jazz big bands.

Marble thrones in the Theater of DionysusAlterations to the stage were made in the subsequent Hellenistic period, and 67 marble thrones were added around the periphery of the orchestra, inscribed with the names of the dignitaries that occupied them.

Violins were added in 1990 and Mariachi Cascabel morphed into a mariachi orchestra at one time numbering 16 players.

For this arrangement, they added an orchestra and Egyptian musicians.

In keeping with his idea of a " unit orchestra ," Hope-Jones added pneumatically-and electrically operated instruments such as xylophones, wood harps, chimes, sleigh bells, chrysoglotts and glockenspiels to reproduce the orchestral versions of these instruments.

The orchestra received added luster by the appointment of Joseph Silverstein as conductor in 1983.

The music to the Charanga required an orchestra with a flute and violins, but Palmieri also added a mixture of trumpets and trombones.

Recordings by the late Enrico Caruso still sold well, so RCA took some of his early records made with only piano accompaniment, added a studio orchestra, and reissued the recordings.

In 1963, Valentin joined Tito Rodriguez ( after not being hired by Tito in a recording session because of his age, he was given a chance and was added to his regular band ) and traveled twice with Tito's orchestra to Venezuela.

An orchestra pit was also added to the original Frank Matcham design which was otherwise largely unaltered since 1903.

As a film and television composer, Mellé was one of the first to use electronic instruments ( which he built himself ), either alone or as an added voice among the string, wind, brass, and percussion sections of the orchestra.

Divided almost equally into two parts, it consisted of `` The Evolution Of The Blues '', narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last year at the Monterey, Calif., Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band.

His small instrumental output includes two piano concerti, a concerto for organ written in 1773, a concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra ( 1774 ), and a set of twenty-six variations on La follia di Spagna ( 1815 ).

The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

The final stage of the audition process in some orchestras is a test week, in which the performer plays with the orchestra for a week or two, which allows the conductor and principal players to see if the individual can function well in an actual performance setting.

Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra, including two serenades, four symphonies, two piano concertos ( No. 1 in D minor ; No. 2 in B-flat major ), a Violin Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and two companion orchestral overtures, the Academic Festival Overture and the Tragic Overture.

Brahms's works in variation form include, among others, the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel and the Paganini Variations, both for solo piano, and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn ( now sometimes called the Saint Anthony Variations ) in versions for two pianos and for orchestra.

Some of his notable compositions include the series of nineteen Klavierstücke ( Piano Pieces ), Kontra-Punkte for ten instruments, the electronic / musique-concrète Gesang der Jünglinge, Gruppen for three orchestras, the percussion solo Zyklus, Kontakte, the cantata Momente, the live-electronic Mikrophonie I, Hymnen, Stimmung for six vocalists, Aus den sieben Tagen, Mantra for two pianos and electronics, Tierkreis, Inori for soloists and orchestra, and the gigantic opera cycle Licht.

The name " motet " was preserved in Baroque music, especially in France, where the word was applied to two distinct, and very different, genres: petits motets, sacred choral or chamber compositions whose only accompaniment was a basso continuo ; and grands motets, which included massed choirs and instruments up to and including a full orchestra.

During the Baroque and Classical periods, recitative could appear in two basic forms: secco ( dry ) recitative, accompanied only by continuo, which was usually a harpsichord and a cello ; or accompagnato ( also known as strumentato ) in which the orchestra provided accompaniment.

She sang with Goodman's orchestra in two 1943 films, Stage Door Canteen and The Powers Girl.

In 1948, two years after the group's conception, the troupe had grown to 60 women with 16 forming an orchestra.

Also in this decade Appleton composed two, full-length operas for a choir of 1500 children and professional orchestra.

) They are scored for a fairly standard orchestra of woodwinds in pairs, four horns, two or three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and strings.

The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words conserere ( meaning to tie, to join, to weave ) and certamen ( competition, fight ): the idea is that the two parts in a concerto, the soloist and the orchestra, alternate episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence in the creation of the music flow.

Chopin wrote two piano concertos in which the orchestra is very much relegated to an accompanying role.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

* Malcolm Arnold's concerto for piano duet and strings, as well as his concerto for two violins and string orchestra

* Jean Françaix's concerto for two pianos and another for two harps, as well as his Divertissement for string trio and orchestra, his Quadruple Concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and orchestra, his Double Concerto for flute and clarinet, and his Concerto for 15 Soloists and Orchestra