In announcing Jorda's return, the orchestra also announced that the sale of single tickets for the 50th anniversary season will start at the Sherman Clay box office on Wednesday.

Four string alto balalaikas are also encountered and are used in the orchestra of the Piatnistky Folk Choir.

The concept of the balalaika orchestra was adopted wholeheartedly by the Soviet government as something distinctively proletarian ( that is, from the working classes ) and was also deemed progressive.

While still tightly linked to the court culture and absolutism, with its formality and emphasis on order and hierarchy, the new style was also a cleaner style — one that favored clearer divisions between parts, brighter contrasts and colors, and simplicity rather than complexity, and the typical orchestra size increased.

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 group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light ( as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers ) but also using " electric " rock instruments combined with a " light orchestra " ( orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s ).

The pedal harp was also present in the Michael Kamen and Metallica concert and album, S & M, as part of the San Francisco Symphony orchestra.

Quite a few orchestra harmonicas are also designed to serve as both bass and chord harmonica, with bass notes next to chord groupings.

In this time Benny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús " Chucho " Rodríguez.

Though Paganini also commissioned from him Harold en Italie for viola and orchestra, he never performed it, and instead it was premiered a year later by violist Christian Urhan.

Craig's orchestra was also the first to broadcast over local radio station WSM-AM and enjoyed phenomenal success with a 12-year show on the NBC Radio Network.

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.

" British novelist Malcolm Lowry, painter Oskar Kokoschka, orchestra director Wilhelm Furtwängler, and filmmaker Fritz Lang were also fans of Spengler's work.

The term " orchestra " can also be applied to a jazz ensemble, for example in performance of big band music.

Because music written for early trumpets required the use of a different trumpet for each key — they did not have valves and therefore were not chromatic — and also because a player may choose to play a particular passage on a different trumpet from the one indicated on the written music, orchestra trumpet players are generally adept at transposing music at sight, sometimes playing music written for the B trumpet on the C trumpet, and vice versa.

* La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 ( also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo – in 2010 )

Konstanze sings in a kind of sinfonia concertante with four solo players from the orchestra ; the strikingly long orchestral introduction, without stage action, also poses problems for stage directors.

The late 1950s also saw Ella Fitzgerald record her Duke Ellington Songbook with Ellington and his orchestra — a recognition that Ellington's songs had now become part of the cultural canon known as the ' Great American Songbook '.

There has also been diversification in the size of orchestra required.

He also wrote a Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello, and orchestra.

In some cases, they also brought about a new approach to the role of the soloist and its relation to the orchestra.

Dutilleux has also described his Métaboles as a concerto for orchestra, while Britten's well-known pedagogical work The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is essentially a concerto for orchestra in all but name.

His bassoon concerto and the Andante e Rondo ungarese ( a reworking of a piece originally for viola and orchestra ) are also popular with bassoonists.

Weber's orchestration has also been highly praised and emulated by later generations of composers – Berlioz referred to him several times in his Treatise on Instrumentation while Debussy remarked that the sound of the Weber orchestra was obtained through the scrutiny of the soul of each instrument.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

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.

Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall ( 1961 ) includes Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, along with other compositions recorded in concert with an orchestra under Evans ' direction.

Although the film had a very poor sound recording, Prokofiev adapted much of his score into a large-scale cantata for mezzo-soprano, orchestra and chorus, which was extensively performed and recorded.

The French soloist Jean-Pierre Rampal notably recorded several Mercadante concertos for flute and string orchestra, including the grand and romantic E minor concerto, which has since gained some popularity among concert flautists.

His famous album Libertango was recorded in Milan in May 1974 and later that year he separated from Amelita Baltar and in September recorded the album Summit-Reunion Cumbre with the saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and an Italian orchestra, including jazz musicians such as bassist Pino Presti and drummer Tullio De Piscopo, in Milan.

However, three songs for baritone and orchestra that Ravel composed for the film were later published under the title Don Quichotte a Dulcinée, and have been performed and recorded.

In 1954 the English composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems in a work for speaker and orchestra entitled Practical Cats, which was recorded soon after, with the actor Robert Donat as the speaker.

Fitzgerald recorded nearly 150 sides with the orchestra before it broke up in 1942, " the majority of them novelties and disposable pop fluff ".

Combining rock with an orchestra and choir, the concert was recorded and released on 18 May, where it topped the UK album charts on entry for one week.

In 1966, with his orchestra, he recorded an album on the Ranwood Records label, with top-flight Jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges, featuring a number of Jazz standards, including " Someone to Watch Over Me ", " Misty " and " Fantastic, That's You ".

In recent years, a number of his compositions ( notably championed by the violinist, Paul Zukofsky ) have been recorded and made available on CD, including three of his string quartets, the three symphonies, a rhapsody for orchestra, and four solo piano works: his Sonata, Dance Suite, Piece in Seven Movements ( 1935 – 37 ) and Seven Pieces ( 1947 ).

Hazlehurst then recorded the music using an orchestra consisting of a guitar, harmonica, two violins, a viola, cello, accordion, horn, bass, flute and percussion.

Leo Reisman's orchestra version had the biggest hit on records ( with Arlen himself as vocalist ), although Ethel Waters's recorded version also sold well.

In September, Brel recorded his fourth album, La Valse à Mille Temps ( The waltz a thousand times as fast ), with François Rauber and his orchestra.

While " The Tune " was played frequently in concerts since its composition, it was first recorded in a studio in 1977, backed by 45 piece orchestra, and only released in 1983.

He recorded Hoagy Carmichael singing and playing " Washboard Blues " to the accompaniment of his orchestra in 1927.

The orchestra recorded a complete cycle of the Tippett symphonies for Chandos, the Vaughan Williams symphonies for Naxos ( with Kees Bakels for seven of the symphonies and Paul Daniel for A Sea Symphony and the 4th ).

The orchestra has also recorded for Naxos a complete series of the symphonies of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

For Deutsche Grammophon, Ozawa and the orchestra recorded William Russo's " Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra " with the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band, and Bernstein's Orchestral Dances from West Side Story.

The concert was recorded but only released to the orchestra members.