This time the orchestra gave him some superb support fired by response to his own high mood.

They sang, had a band / orchestra, composed songs, and gave much attention to its cultivation.

Each episode ended with an extended instrumental performance of " The Muppet Show Theme " by the Muppet orchestra before Statler and Waldorf gave the last laugh of the night.

By the time he was twenty, Mozart was able to write concerto ritornelli that gave the orchestra admirable opportunity for asserting its character in an exposition with some five or six sharply contrasted themes, before the soloist enters to elaborate on the material.

With generous support from local music lovers and the municipal orchestra, with whom they gave a farewell concert on 9 October, the two young musicians, accompanied by their father, made the four-day journey to Paris in November 1833.

The Erith Symphony Orchestra ceased to exist in 1972 and it was almost 30 years before another orchestra was heard in the town, when the Dartford-based, Orchestra of the Thames Gateway gave a concert there in 2004 and in subsequent years.

Under Koussevitzky, the orchestra gave regular radio broadcasts and established its summer home at Tanglewood, where Koussevitzky founded the Berkshire Music Center, which is now the Tanglewood Music Center.

On 14 December 1903, the Orchestra gave its 500th symphony concert, conducted by Godfrey ; a souvenir booklet listed all the works played by the orchestra since its inception, noting any first performances.

For many years until his death in 2003, Ron Goodwin gave an annual series of Christmas concerts with the orchestra around the south and west of England.

A special edition of the television programme Aquarius called The Unknown Warrior gave considerable coverage to the recording session and a camera crew joined members of the orchestra during a visit they made to the composer's home in Shoreham.

On Christmas night, 1937, the NBC orchestra gave its first performance — Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in D Minor — in an entirely refurbished studio in the RCA Building.

It was this singing, he told Fenby, that first gave him the urge to express himself in music ; thus, writes Fenby, many of Delius's early works are " redolent of Negro hymnology and folk-song ", a sound " not heard before in the orchestra, and seldom since ".

The orchestra gave its first performance on December 29, 1903, with Harry West conducting.

In 1922, the orchestra gave the world's first radio broadcast of a symphony orchestra concert with Gabrilowitsch conducting and guest artist Artur Schnabel at the piano.

He gave them extended horizons and some of his achievements with the orchestra, both at home and abroad, gave them quite a different constitution.

During this period the orchestra gave fund-raising concerts in which guests from outside the world of classical music appeared, including Danny Kaye, Duke Ellington, Tony Bennett, Victor Borge, Jack Benny and John Dankworth.

Klemperer gave his immediate support, and on 17 March 1964 the members of the orchestra elected their own governing body and adopted the name New Philharmonia Orchestra.

The orchestra gave many more live performances after it became self-governing than it had under Legge's management.

He gave them extended horizons and some of his achievements with the orchestra, both at home and abroad, gave them quite a different constitution.

The RPO gave him the title of Conductor for Life in 1970, and he stepped down from the orchestra in 1975.

During this time, a new collective bargaining agreement was in effect, which gave the musicians increased authority over matters of running the orchestra such as the hiring of musicians and choice of repertoire.

The principal first violin is called the concertmaster ( or " leader " in the UK ) and is considered the leader of not only the string section, but of the entire orchestra, subordinate only to the conductor.

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.

Marin Alsop, principal conductor from September 2002 to 2008, was the BSO's first female principal conductor and the first female principal conductor of a UK orchestra.

In November 2007, the BSO announced the appointment Kirill Karabits as their 13th Principal Conductor, the first Ukrainian principal conductor of a UK orchestra.

Most of its concerts are broadcast on BBC Radio 3, streamed online and available as podcasts for a week after broadcast, and a number are televised: the orchestra's website claims that this gives the BBC " the highest broadcast profile of any UK orchestra ".

The orchestra tours to other towns and cities in the UK and abroad.

It is also the resident orchestra at Grange Park Opera, and regularly tours in the UK and internationally.

This led to Rodgers performing two sold-out nights at London's Royal Albert Hall with Holland and his 18-piece rhythm and blues orchestra, and several UK TV appearances.

In 1956 the theme song was released on Parlophone records by Dick James with Stephen James and his chums and Ron Goodwin's Orchestra and reached number 14 in the UK charts ( 78rpm single: R. 4117 / 45rpm single: MSP6199 ), and by PYE records as a 78rpm single by Gary Miller with Tony Osbourne orchestra and the Beryl Stott chorus ( PYE N. 15020 ) and reached number 10 on the UK charts, versions by Frankie Laine ( CBS Coronet ), Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra ( Capitol ), Alan Dale ( Coral ), Joe Reisman's orchestra and chorus ( RCA Victor ) and Ronnie Ronaldo ( Colombia ) were also issued.

The Grade II listed Scarborough Spa complex is home to the Scarborough Spa Orchestra, the last remaining seaside orchestra in the UK.

This orchestra was off stage, as was the tradition for UK national finals.

The orchestra's secretary-general Avi Shoshani declared to London's The Times newspaper that the orchestra was unlikely to ever perform in the UK again.

The performance by a traditional orchestra and the dire costumes ( described as " their mother's underwear " by UK commentator Terry Wogan ) were considered to have played a part in the low final score.

In fact, the first Polygon release in the UK was not by Clark but by Louis Prima and his orchestra.

The orchestra performs mostly in the greater Copenhagen area, but has in recent years visited such places as France, Sweden, Italy, UK, the Faroe Islands, Austria and Latvia.

Highlights in 2002 included the premieres of several major works, including View From Olympus a double concerto for piano, percussion and orchestra performed by Evelyn Glennie, Philip Smith and the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder at the Royal Gala finale of the Commonwealth Games ' Pulse ' music festival in Manchester, UK.

" Requiem " opens with the first accordes of Joaquín Rodrigo's " Concierto de Aranjuez ", which had been a number 3 hit just two months before in the UK for Geoff Love's orchestra, billed as ' Manuel & the Music of the Mountains '.

In 1995 the orchestra of Birmingham Composers Forum put on what was only the second UK performance of his Second Symphony, dating from 1970.

In 2011, the Festival mounted the first professional UK production of Utopia, Limited, and in 2012, it mounted the first full-scale professional production of The Grand Duke, with orchestra, in Britain since the 19th century.

Time and a Words use of a studio orchestra seemed intrusive to some critics, and the album was received in a lukewarm fashion ( UK # 45, Yes ' first chart entry at home ).

It was also featured on the first UK singles chart in another instrumental recording by orchestra leader Ray Martin.