The red ' recording in progress ' light was illuminated to prevent interruptions and Vic Schoen, the composer of the score, had started to conduct a cue, but at that moment he saw that the entire orchestra had turned to look at Stravinsky, who had just walked into the studio.

This was followed by a shot of the orchestra and then a shot of a few rows of arches filled with characters saying, " And now let's get things started ", before the audience says, " Why don't you get things started ?".

Born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of German immigrants, at a young age Wiedoeft started playing with his family orchestra, first on violin, then on clarinet.

They had an orchestra that started in 1918.

Koussevitzky started a tradition that was to be continued by the orchestra with commissions by Henri Dutilleux for its 75th anniversary, Roger Sessions, and Andrzej Panufnik, for the 100th, and lately for the 125th works by Leon Kirchner, Elliott Carter, and Peter Lieberson.

Handy in 1917, he started an orchestra under his own name, which soon included such notables as Lorenzo Tio and Steve Lewis.

Cozy Powell was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, and started playing drums at age 12 in the school orchestra, thereafter playing along in his spare time to popular singles of the day.

* The Song of Songs for soloists, double chorus and orchestra ( started in 1912 completed 1922 ; text: Book of Solomon, Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester, 1922, then Dorothy Silk, Frank Mullings, Norman Allin, Hallé, composer, 10 March 1927 )

In 1870 in Cetinje, the first Montenegrin Army Music started being formed — although not many people applied for the orchestra, because being a soldier was much more valued in Montenegrin society than being a musician.

In 1811, Karl XIII came to power and reinstated the Royal Chapel ; the following year Berwald started working there, as well as playing the violin in the court orchestra and the opera, receiving lessons from Edouard du Puy, and also started composing.

In recent times more Ukrainian composers have started to incorporate the bandura in their orchestral works with traditional Ukrainian folk operas such as Natalka Poltavka being re-scored for the bandura, and contemporary works such as Kupalo by Y. Stankovych and The Sacred Dnipro by Valery Kikta incorporating the bandura as part of the orchestra.

The red " recording in progress " light was illuminated to ensure no interruptions, so Schoen started to conduct a cue but noticed that the entire orchestra had turned to look at Igor Stravinsky, who had just walked into the studio.

Upon his return to Mexico, Chávez became director of the ( Mexican Symphonic Orchestra ), later renamed ( Mexico's Symphonic Orchestra ); the country's first permanent orchestra, started by a musicians ' labor union.

Singer Iva Davies from the band Icehouse, lived in Lindfield during the 1970s to early-1980s whilst he was part of the ABC Sinfonia ( orchestra ) and started the band there.

While other conductors often go for the big effects in Sibelius, Berglund started to love the clarity that could be achieved with an orchestra of about 50 players.

The orchestra was started as an offshoot of Fitzwilliam College Music Society ( FCMS ), which provided grants to help fund the early years.

In late 1927 he started to set up his own sextet or orchestra tipica ( José Pécora and David Abramsky on violin, César Ginzo and Tito Landó on bandoneón and Adolfo Kraus on bass ), directing it from behind the piano that he himself played.

The orchestra started out as a group of all-star studio musicians getting together for midnight practice sessions at any place within walking distance from Jim and Andy's, a bar frequented by New York musicians.

One of the earliest recorded examples of the hybrid valve / slide trombone can be found on a Duke Ellington recording, as Puerto Rica-born trombonist Juan Tizol started using it after he joined Duke's orchestra in 1929.

Rosy has been singing since the age of 4, when she would lead the youth orchestra of her school until she eventually started singing solo songs.

-the Association Jean-Pierre Rampal has started reissuing most of the early Saar radio tapes ( 1954 – 1957 ) with Ristenpart ’ s orchestra and French soloists as CD sets under its label Premiers Horizons Disques ( www. jprampal. com ).

The Bohuslän Big Band is a modern jazz ensemble from Sweden which started as a military orchestra in the 19th century.

In 1997, the band performed a one-off show with strings by the New York Philharmonic orchestra at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City.

The band and orchestra ( with Paul Hart returning as guest musician ) promoted the album with a one-off concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 1 November 1987.

As a tongue-in-cheek substitute, a re-filmed " Sex Dwarf " appeared in Non-Stop Exotic Video Show featuring Almond dressed in a tuxedo, directing a symphony orchestra of transvestites.

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.

Taken as a whole, though, it was a strong performance from both pianist and orchestra.

The final stage of the audition process in some orchestras is a test week, in which the performer plays with the orchestra for a week or two, which allows the conductor and principal players to see if the individual can function well in an actual performance setting.

The language was spoken and sung verse, the performance area included a circular floor or orchestra where the chorus could dance, a space for actors ( three speaking actors in Euripides's time ), a backdrop or skene and some special effects: an ekkyklema ( used to bring the skene's ' indoors ' outdoors ) and a mechane ( used to lift actors in the air, as in deus ex machina ).

It is now the only Indian symphony orchestra that functions and performs on a regular basis with a concert standard of performance.

The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble.

A symphony orchestra will usually have over eighty musicians on its roster, in some cases over a hundred, but the actual number of musicians employed in a particular performance may vary according to the work being played and the size of the venue.

The term " orchestra " can also be applied to a jazz ensemble, for example in performance of big band music.

* 1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich ( with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players.

" Conducting an orchestra, he might stop and order a violinist who had played a sour note to get off the stage, then resume the performance and have the other members of the section move up to fill the empty seat while they were still playing.

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.

Accompanying instruments vary widely, from only one to a full orchestra ; for rehearsals a piano or organ accompaniment is often used, even if a different instrumentation is planned for performance, or if the choir is rehearsing unaccompanied music.

Starting from a form called Concerto grosso introduced by Arcangelo Corelli, it evolved into the form we understand today as performance of a soloist with / against an orchestra.

The performance took place at the Law School in Buenos Aires with the symphony orchestra of Radio del Estadio under the direction of Sevitzky himself.

He or she may move intervals up or down the octave ( or omit them entirely ), double certain passages with other instruments in the orchestra, add percussion instruments to provide colour, and add Italian performance marks ( e. g. Allegro con brio, Adagio, ritardando, dolce, staccato, etc .).

On April 1, 2006, he conducted the orchestra for the Dream Theater 20th Anniversary World Tour performance at Radio City Music Hall in NYC.

Later, as the performance is starting he freezes the conductor, steals his hair, tuxedo, nose and facial hair, then takes his place in front of the orchestra to conduct the Great Poochini, who is unaware of the imposter in front of him.

As the winner she got to perform in concert with the orchestra on August 26, 1925, a performance that scored immediate success with both audience and music critics.

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 ".

The film offers rare color glimpses of the wartime MGM studio, including the Thalberg Building, the frontgate, the backlot, the commissary, and one of the scoring stages, as well as an on-screen performance by real members of the MGM studio orchestra.

In 1939 the Finzis moved to Ashmansworth, near Newbury, where he founded the Newbury String Players, an amateur chamber orchestra which he conducted until his death, reviving eighteenth century string music as well as giving premieres of works by his contemporaries, and offering chances of performance for talented young musicians such as Julian Bream and Kenneth Leighton.

In November 1973, the 72 year-old Dietrich fell off the stage into the orchestra pit while attempting to shake her conductor's hand during a performance in Toledo, Washington.

These recordings are of special interest for the performance practices of the orchestra and also for intensity of expression.

The orchestra gained its first international recognition during Silvestri's tenure, such as in a joint performance with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in the Winter Gardens by the combined string sections of both orchestras, playing Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro.

Boult had striven to maintain the orchestra's standards and prestige during the war ; as an instance of its prowess in the 1940s Kennedy cites an HMV recording of Elgar's Second Symphony released in January 1945: " a performance that blazed with excitement and passion and is documentary evidence of the excellence of the orchestra in 1944 ".