Command's new Brahms Second is a major effort to make a record that sounds like a real orchestra rather than a copy of one.

The orchestra is far enough away from you that you miss the bow scrapes, valve clicks, and other noises incidental to playing.

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.

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.

It is a music like the music from a great organ or a vast orchestra playing a symphony.

Paul Paray, rounding out his current stint with the orchestra, is a solid musician, and the Philharmonic plays for him.

This season the orchestra has already taken a step toward the suburbs in that it is giving six subscription concerts for the Orchestral Society of Westchester in the County Center in White Plains.

Alfred Wallenstein, the conductor, sensitive accompanist that he is, picked up the idea and led the orchestra here with a sense of brooding, poetic mystery.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

Orchestration differs in that it is only adapting music for an orchestra or musical ensemble while arranging " involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings ... Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety " ( ibid ).

The string section in a multi-sectioned orchestra is referred sometimes to as the “ string choir .”

A string section can be utilized on its own ( this is referred to as a string orchestra ) or in conjunction with any of the other instrumental sections.

" 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.

The symphony is scored for the following orchestra.

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.

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

The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, in a string orchestra, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra.

It is the second largest bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, the double bass being the largest.

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 ).

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.

Ellis Island: The Dream of America is a work for actors and orchestra with projected images by Peter Boyer, composed in 2001-02.

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

Brahms composed for piano, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and for voice and chorus.

During composers Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn's time, the orchestra was composed of a fairly standard core of instruments which was very rarely modified.

* Ernest Bloch composed a Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra entitled Schelomo, based on King Solomon.

Folmann composed the music in the style of an electronic orchestra.

In 1885, Mascagni composed Il Re a Napoli in Cremona, romance for tenor and orchestra, on a text by Andrea Maffei.

Schickele has composed more than 100 original works for symphony orchestra, choral groups, chamber ensemble, voice, film ( e. g. Silent Running, and animated adaptations of Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen ), and television.

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

He made recordings of smaller groups ( sextets, octets, and nonets ) drawn from his then-15-man orchestra and he composed pieces intended to feature specific instrumentalist, as with " Jeep's Blues " for Johnny Hodges, " Yearning for Love " for Lawrence Brown, " Trumpet in Spades " for Rex Stewart, " Echoes of Harlem " for Cootie Williams and " Clarinet Lament " for Barney Bigard.

A concerto ( from the, plural concerti or, often, the anglicised form concertos ) is a musical composition usually composed in four parts or movements, in which ( usually ) one solo instrument ( for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute ) is accompanied by an orchestra.

Igor Stravinsky composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951 – 52, which used stanzas from the 15th-century " Lyke-wake Dirge " as a narrative frame for other anonymous English lyrics, and later designated A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer ( 1961 ) as " a cantata for alto and tenor soli, speaker, chorus, and orchestra ".

Close performed at Carnegie Hall, narrating the violin concerto The Runaway Bunny, a concerto for reader, violin and orchestra, composed and conducted by Glen Roven.

Violeta Dinescu composed Pfingstoratorium, an oratorio for Pentecost for five soloists, mixed chorus and small orchestra in 1993.

Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra ( or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble ) or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium.

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.

Rodgers composed twelve themes, which Bennett used in preparing the orchestra score for the 26-episode World War II television documentary Victory at Sea ( 1952 – 53 ).

39, are a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar.

One of the first pieces composed during the period of Bridge's tutelage was the Quatre Chansons Françaises for soprano and orchestra, though it appears that Britten's abilities as an orchestrator were essentially self-taught rather than learned from Bridge.

The first fruits of this were his cantatas Le visage nuptial and Le soleil des eaux for female voices and orchestra, both composed in the late 1940s and revised several times since, as well as the Second Piano Sonata of 1948, a well-received 32-minute work that Boulez composed at the age of 23.