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.

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 orchestra is composed by pandeiro, atabaque, berimbau-viola ( high pitch berimbau ), chocalho, accompanied by singing and clapping.

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 ).

The 20th century orchestra was far more flexible than its predecessors.

Since the mid-1980s, Peart has used MIDI trigger pads to trigger sounds sampled from various pieces of acoustic percussion that would otherwise consume far too much stage area, such as a marimba, harp, temple blocks, triangles, glockenspiel, orchestra bells, tubular bells, and vibraslap as well as other, more esoteric percussion.

– Mozart directed the orchestra, playing his fortepiano ; the joy which this music causes is so far removed from all sensuality that one cannot speak of it.

Colleagues have testified that, far from feeling bound or stifled by the Whiteman orchestra, as Green and others have suggested, Bix often felt a sense of exhilaration.

The symphony was followed by another orchestral work, by far the best known of Dukas's compositions, his scherzo for orchestra, L ' apprenti sorcier ( The Sorcerer's Apprentice ) ( 1897 ), a short piece ( lasting for between 10 and 12 minutes in performance ) based on Goethe's poem " Der Zauberlehrling ".

Thomas had guest conducted the orchestra as far back as 1974, and already had a relationship with the musicians.

With him the piano sounded like a whole orchestra, not only as far as the power of sound was concerned but in the variety of timbres.

Among the most conspicuous of Davis's projects with the orchestra was the LSO's most ambitious festival thus far, the " Berlioz Odyssey ", in which all Berlioz's major works were given.

The Mosque proved to be an unsuitable venue for the orchestra, as it held far more seats than could reasonably be filled for orchestral concerts, and it was also acoustically unsatisfactory.

" The sound achieved in the premiere did not quite carry far enough from the stage, and indeed the problem of achieving the proper volume while still remaining dull in resonance remains a challenge to the modern orchestra.

He has written five concertos for orchestra: the first, variously translated as Naughty Limericks or Mischievous Folk Ditties ( neither of which completely get the gist of the Russian which refers to a chastushka ( часту ́ шка ), an irreverent, satirical kind of folk song ) is by far the best known, and was the work which first established him on the international stage.

However, the toccata, scored for a very large orchestra, goes far beyond the limits of Ravel's own, small orchestra, and the fugue is set for winds only.

In The Manchester Guardian, Samuel Langford wrote, " Mr. Harty has latterly achieved far more immediate control over the orchestra, and his spirit, judgment, and control were … equally admirable.

The floor was swept but there were pockets of seeds underfoot and drifts of straw and at the far end of the hall a small orchestra labored on a stage of grainpallets under a bandshell rigged from sheeting.

Bernstein also went so far as to include a footnote that the bassist and the keyboardist of the Blues band and the keyboardist, bassist and drummer of the Rock band are to be recruited as percussionists for the stage orchestra for the second movement.

He has written so far 68 symphonies, 14 concerti, 7 major works for chorus and orchestra, two operas, a musical, and music for television.

He composed over a dozen operas and other works for the theatre, as well as for orchestra, but his 1886 comic opera, Dorothy, was by far his most successful work.

In Chicago, he was an active member of his local Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming proficient enough on the latter for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra, with which he performed until the age of 18.

Operatic vocal technique evolved, in a time before electronic amplification, to allow singers to produce enough volume to be heard over an orchestra, without the instrumentalists having to substantially compromise their volume.

2 feet ), large enough to hold a full orchestra of maybe 14 members, on the left.

Around this time, Miller had finally made enough money from milking cows to buy his first trombone and played in the town orchestra.

The prospect of joining a permanent, salaried orchestra was attractive enough to induce some LSO players to defect.

He became proficient enough to play in the local military-style band, and also played in the orchestra which accompanied Gilbert and Sullivan productions and the local choral society's performances of Messiah.

In 1928 the Princesse de Polignac and Coco Chanel proposed to establish a new orchestra, well enough paid to keep its players from taking conflicting engagements.

The popular records, which used small performing groups, were tricky enough to make with the photoelectric cell process ; symphony orchestra recording, however, exacerbated the problems of the " Light-Ray " system to new levels.

Berlioz noted bitterly: " it was manifestly impossible for them to do it justice ... the theater wasn't large enough, the singers insufficiently skilled, the chorus and orchestra inadequate.

Besides composers, conductors, organists, and pianists, only enough students are admitted to fill a single orchestra and an opera company.

Studio 1 was the main music studio at Pebble Mill with enough space to accommodate a full symphony orchestra.

Brian Eno was interested enough to join the orchestra, playing clarinet, and subsequently producing their first two albums.

Be that as it may, it is clear that like those of many other now distinguished organisations, the orchestra ’ s beginnings were humble enough.

After making his own flute, he quickly became proficient enough to play in an orchestra at the age of eighteen and at twenty-one he was first flautist in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra.

An orchestra pit can be any size, but it is usually big enough to fit a small sized orchestra or other small ensemble.

The Camden Studio was also the only studio large enough for the full BBC Radio Orchestra, but the orchestra ultimately moved to a new home at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.

The plane featured a wet bar stocked with a bevy of cocktail selections, as well as a scaled-down version of Armando Romeu's orchestra for anyone brave enough to dance in the aisles.

However, Weingartner admitted, in a letter to Levi, that the real reason that he was unable to perform the symphony was because the work was too difficult and he did not have enough rehearsal time: in particular the Wagner tuba players in his orchestra did not have enough experience to cope with their parts.