Don Redman made significant innovations in the pattern of arrangement in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in the 1920s.

The malleability and acoustic properties of brass have made it the metal of choice for musical instruments such as the trombone, tuba, trumpet, cornet, euphonium, tenor horn, and French horn which are collectively known as the brass within an orchestra.

Hans Werner Henze has made a version of Hartmann's Piano Sonata No. 2 for full orchestra.

The original recording of this version was made by Columbia Records in the 1940s, with Noël Coward reciting the poems and Andre Kostelanetz conducting the orchestra.

The term concert orchestra may sometimes be used ( e. g., BBC Concert Orchestra ; RTÉ Concert Orchestra )— no distinction is made on size of orchestra by use of this term, although their use is generally distinguished as for live concert.

Initially a " rancho carnavalesco ", then a Carnival's Block, and finally a samba school, the Deixa Falar was the first to Rio Carnival parade in the sound of an orchestra made up of percussion surdos, tambourines, and cuícas, who joined pandeiro and shakers.

In 1817 he was made conductor of the college orchestra, composing a number of symphonies, and concertos for various instruments-including six for flute about 1818-1819, and whose autograph scores are in the Naples conservatory, where they were presumably first performed with him as soloist.

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.

Mozart, as a boy, made arrangements for harpsichord and orchestra of three sonata movements by Johann Christian Bach.

Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation.

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

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.

* 1984 – Dmitry Sitkovetsky, transcription for string trio ( he has also made an arrangement for string orchestra )

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 ).

When Basie took his orchestra to New York in 1937, they made the Woodside Hotel in Queens their base ( they often rehearsed in its basement ).

A soundtrack was not commercially available until 1979, when Chalfont Records, with the composer's son George Korngold as producer and an orchestra conducted by Charles Gerhardt, made an early digital recording.

Stransky led all of the orchestra's concerts until 1920, and also made the first recordings with the orchestra in 1917.

In 2000, Lorin Maazel made a guest-conducting appearance with the New York Philharmonic in two weeks of subscription concerts after an absence of over twenty years, which was met with a positive reaction from the orchestra musicians.

Johnson played in Benny Carter's orchestra between 1942 and 1945, and made his first recordings in 1942 under Carter's leadership, recording his first solo ( on Love for Sale ) in October, 1943.

* Margaret Buechner composed a work for chorus and orchestra, " Liberty Bell ", that incorporates a 1959 recording of the actual bell made by Columbia Records.

Under him, the orchestra made a vast number of recordings and toured widely, growing and gaining fame.

It was under Serge Koussevitsky that the orchestra made its first electrical recordings, also for Victor, in the late 1920s.

The first recording by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra was made in 1914 and occasional records were issued during Godfrey's tenure: Godfrey's recordings included works such as Ferdinand Hérold's overture to Zampa, Daniel Auber's overtures The Bronze Horse and The Crown Diamonds, or Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite de Concert, along with " novelty items " with titles such as ' Slippery Sticks ' and ' Whispering Pines ' by members of the orchestra and featuring them as soloists.

In 1957 Groves and the orchestra made commercial recordings, for Classics Club, ( with a local engineer from Ronaldsons of Southbourne ), of Beethoven's 4th Symphony, Brahms's Academic Festival Overture and Bizet's L ' Arlésienne Suite.

The balalaika orchestra in its full form — balalaikas, domras, gusli, bayan, kugiklas, Vladimir Shepherd's Horns, garmoshkas and several types of percussion instruments — has a distinctive sound: strangely familiar to the ear, yet decidedly not entirely Western European.

They are chromatic instruments and are usually played in an East Asian harmonica orchestra instead of the " push-button " chromatic harmonica that is more common in the European / American tradition.

While the band's United States audience remained mainly African-American in this period, the Cotton Club had a near-exclusive white clientele and the Ellington orchestra had a huge following overseas, exemplified by the success of their trip to England in 1933 and their 1934 visit to the European mainland.

On May 15, 1997, the group performed with the Slovenian symphony orchestra, conducted by Marko Letonja, and the " Tone Tomšić " choir, for the opening ceremony of the Ljubljana European Month of Culture, presenting orchestral versions of their earliest material, which they rarely performed live, arranged by Uroš Rojko and Aldo Kumar with the members of the group.

Arturo Toscanini ( standing in the center, sporting a bow tie and cap ) with the orchestra aboard the S. S de Grasse, embarking on their European tour, 1930 .. New York Philharmonic Archives

In 1980 the Philharmonic, always known as a touring orchestra, embarked on a European tour marking the 50th anniversary of Toscanini's trip to Europe.

In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the Berlin Philharmonic number three on a list of " top ten European Orchestras ", after the Vienna Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, while in 2008 it was voted the world's number two orchestra in a survey among leading international music critics organized by the British magazine Gramophone ( behind the Concertgebouw ).

In 1962, Constantin Silvestri became Principal Conductor and raised the standard and profile of the orchestra, with an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1963, a first European tour in 1965, notable recordings and regular radio broadcasts.

In 2000, Davis was succeeded by Leonard Slatkin, whose relationship with the players was uneasy, and whose repertoire was not generally liked by the orchestra or the audiences ; he was felt to emphasise twentieth century American music at the expense of cutting-edge modern works and the central European classics.

Szell is also credited with giving the orchestra its distinct, European sound.

In April 2007, the European Cultural Foundation awarded the orchestra a prize " zur Bewahrung des musikalischen Weltkulturerbes " ( for preservation of the world's musical heritage ").

In European classical music, the triangle has been used in the western classical orchestra since around the middle of the 18th century.

A typical 19th century European orchestra included a first violin, a contra-violin ( or modified 3-stringed viola also called Groyse Fidl Big Fiddle, Sekund, Kontra or Zsidó Bratsch ), a tsimbl ( cimbalom or hammered dulcimer ), a bass or cello, and sometimes a flute.

Nikisch took the London Symphony Orchestra on tour through the United States in April of 1912, the first American tour by a European orchestra.

Ponce also wrote a rich repertoire for solo piano, piano and ensembles, and piano and orchestra, developing the first period of modernistic nationalism, using Native American and European resources, but merging them into a new, original style.

Shortly before Ellington went on his second European tour with his orchestra, from March to May 1939, Ellington announced to his sister Ruth and son Mercer Ellington, that Strayhorn " is staying with us.

In 2003, the orchestra made its European début with performances in London's Barbican Hall, Belfast, Dublin and Paris ( Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ).

Under van Otterloo, the orchestra made an eight-week European tour in 1974 which culminated in two concerts in Amsterdam and The Hague.

Consequently, for the recreation of tracks like the themes from " Star Wars " and " The War of the Worlds ", included in the " Star Wars and Other Hits " medley on Longplay-Album II and released as the third European single under the title " Volume III ", a full symphony orchestra was used, including strings, brass, woodwind, harpsichord, orchestral percussion like timpani etc.

The Studio's goal is to develop well-rounded professionals prepared for all performance aspects in the fields of opera and music theater and in all genres: traditional European operas, contemporary opera and works of musical theater by American composers from diverse cultural backgrounds, innovative interpretations of the standard repertoire, recitals, concerts with orchestra, and fully staged productions.

* In 2009 the Lithuanian composer Bronius Kutavičius wrote a score for chamber orchestra ( for St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra ), which was performed in Scanorama – European film forum in Vilnius.

They made Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and their music consisted of heavily son-influenced material, performed on European instruments such as violin and flute by a Charanga orchestra.

The limited 2CD European edition of the album featured many of the album tracks with all instruments performed by a symphony orchestra.