The conductor's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness, as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto, but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed, it did so with plenty of spring.

This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.

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.

For several years, however, Verdi did not allow his work to be played here, as some of his music had been modified ( he said " corrupted ") by the orchestra.

Ellington led the orchestra by conducting from the keyboard using piano cues and visual gestures ; very rarely did he conduct using a baton.

While working with the Les Hite band, Hampton also occasionally did some performing with Nat Shilkret and his orchestra.

He also did not allow a former songwriter to advertise herself as “ formerly featured with Louis Prima ’ s orchestra ”.

Additionally, although originally intended to replace the oboe and the bassoon, the practical ranges of the corresponding sarrusophones, the soprano and bass, as per famed band conductor Edwin Franko Goldman and organologist Anthony Baines, did not lend themselves to proper playing of oboe and bassoon parts, especially in orchestra transcriptions for wind band.

He admired Wagner's aspirations concerning music drama, but did not agree with that composer's methods to achieve them ( such as the leitmotif system and the predominance of the orchestra ).

Messiaen stated that the commission did not specify the length of the work or the size of the orchestra.

One million radio listeners tuned in when Koussevitzky and the orchestra were the first to perform a live concert for radio broadcast, which they did on NBC in 1926.

Doráti was convinced that the orchestra was stultified by concentrating on studio broadcasts, as it did except during the Proms season.

Gershwin decided to keep his options open as to when Whiteman would bring in the orchestra and he did not write out one of the pages for solo piano, with only the words " Wait for nod " scrawled by Grofé on the band score.

After this the orchestra did not appoint a chief conductor for nearly 20 years.

Klemperer's bitterness at this decision was voiced in a letter he wrote to Arthur Judson, who ran the orchestra: " that the society did not reengage me is the strongest offense, the sharpest insult to me as artist, which I can imagine.

He did not want to leave the OSP, his wife did not want to live on the west coast of America, and the orchestra was so low in funds that it had been forced to cancel an entire season in 1934.

Even though he did not do band arrangements in the 1920s, for a time his ideas of arrangement were heavily influenced by those of Paul Whiteman, but when Louis Armstrong joined his orchestra in 1924 Henderson realized there could be a much richer potential for jazz band orchestration.

In addition to the chief conductor, the orchestra had conductor positions titled " eerste dirigent " (" first conductor "), who assisted the chief conductor with programming, and " tweede dirigent " (" second conductor "), who did " what he was told.

Very few of the orchestra records were approved for issue and those that did appear on the market often combined excellent performances with embarrassingly execrable sound.

In 1906 he heard Frederick Delius's Sea Drift in Essen with the composer present, and promised to Delius that when he had his own orchestra he would conduct it himself, which he did in Frankfurt with Delius again in the audience.

( The principal trumpet in the orchestra for the work's première even confronted Mahler, saying " I'd just like to know what's beautiful about blowing away at a trumpet stopped up to high C-sharp " Mahler had no answer, but later pointed out to Alma that the man did not understand the agony of his own existence ).

However, the use of mutes did not become widespread in classical music until the 19th century when romantic composers sought new timbres from the orchestra.

Yet you feel the orchestra is near at hand, and the individual instruments have the same firm presence associated with listening from a good seat in an acoustically perfect hall.

Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

We would have preferred, however, to have had the rest of the orchestra refrain from laughing at this and other spots on the recording, since it mars an otherwise sober, if not lofty, performance.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

The get-together Friday night will be a banquet at the country club patio and pool, and an orchestra will play for dancing.

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.

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.

At the same time the orchestra announced that next season it would be giving twenty-five programs at Carnegie, and that it would be taking these concerts to the suburbs, repeating each of them in five different communities.

He then took refuge at the altar in the orchestra of the Theater of Dionysus.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

" The production is " sparing on furniture and heavy on shadows ", with " a scaled-down orchestra at lugubriously slowed-down tempos ..." He goes on to write that " this somber, less-is-more approach could be effective were the ensemble plugged into the same rueful sensibility.

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.

The Caltech / Occidental College Orchestra is a full seventy-piece orchestra composed of students, faculty, and staff at Caltech and nearby Occidental College.

The orchestra gives three pairs of concerts annually, at both Caltech and Occidental College.

Claudius rebuilt Pompey's Theater after it had been destroyed by fire, organizing special fights at the re-dedication which he observed from a special platform in the orchestra box.

About the closest that a bass player can come to this is in the case of classical bass players who win an audition at a professional orchestra or the tiny number of top session pros that are hired by recording studios.

Noted entertainers who performed for detained aliens and for U. S. and allied servicemen at the island included Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, and Lionel Hampton and orchestra.

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.

In consequence of this the senate decreed that, whenever any public show was given anywhere, the first row of seats should be reserved for senators ; and at Rome he would not allow the envoys of the free and allied nations to sit in the orchestra, since he was informed that even freedmen were sometimes appointed.

Arturo Toscanini performed as cellist in the orchestra at the world premiere and began his friendship with Verdi ( a composer he revered as highly as Beethoven ).

The Dharma at Big Sur ( 2003 ): A piece for solo electric six-string violin and orchestra.

It was on Bach's recommendation that in 1748 he was able to join Johann Adolph Hasse's court orchestra at Dresden where he remained for ten years.

In 1963, he died from stomach cancer at the age of 58, leaving his last work – an extended symphonic Gesangsszene for voice and orchestra on words from Jean Giraudoux ’ s apocalyptic drama Sodom and Gomorrah – unfinished.

There are a number of specialist units within the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince, which include a motorcycle section ( for rapid-response and motorcycle outriding ); a bodyguard and protection unit ; a diving unit with military, rescue, and scientific capabilities ; a military first-aid unit which provides first-aid and ambulance cover at public and sporting events ; and a military band, which includes state trumpeters, a brass ensemble, and a small orchestra, as well as being a marching band for ceremonial purposes.