Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.

Raymond Fox reported that the orchestra had hastily rehearsed `` Cradle Song '' in case it was needed.

There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

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

So the plot creaks, the sets are decaying, the costumes are pre-historic, the orchestra was sloppy and not very well connected with what the singers were doing.

Then there was a bad delay in getting Mort Lindsey's 30-piece orchestra wedged into its chairs.

The orchestra was obviously on its mettle and it played most responsively.

On Saturday, the orchestra was sensibly situated down on the field, the stage floor was apparently in decent condition for dancing, and the order of the program improved.

This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra.

Andrew Powell appeared as arranger of orchestra ( and often choirs ) on all albums except Vulture Culture, when he was composing the score of Richard Donner's film Ladyhawke.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.

An early by-product, however, was the Mahagonny-Songspiel, sometimes known as Das kleine Mahagonny, a concert work for voices and small orchestra commissioned by the Deutsche Kammermusik Festival in Baden-Baden and premiered there on 18 July 1927.

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.

Billy Strayhorn was an arranger of great renown in the Duke Ellington orchestra beginning in 1938.

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

The composer used his knowledge of synthesizers and was able to present many cues in a mock-up form before he took them in front of an orchestra.

He was turning the pages of his score and beating time for an orchestra he could not hear.

The opening theme, played pianissimo over string tremolos, so much resembles the sound of an orchestra tuning, many commentators have suggested that was Beethoven's inspiration.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

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 movement was so powerful that even the renowned Red Army Choir, which initially used a normal symphonic orchestra, changed its instrumentation, replacing violins, violas, and violoncellos with orchestral balalaikas and domras.

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.

The orchestra was renamed and reorganized under the financial management of Hermann Wolff in 1887.

The Bournemouth Municipal Choir was renamed the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus in 1979, when it entered into a closer relationship with the orchestra.

In the 1960s and ' 70s Little Joe and the Latinairs, later renamed La Familia, The Latin Breed, and others infused the orchestra sound into the Tejano sound, taking their influences from the Pop, R & B and other forms of music.

In 1946, the orchestra moved to the Wilson Theater which was renamed Music Hall.

Styled “ a tragic Singspiel ”, it was staged on 23 October 1781 at the Nationalhoftheater, as the emperor Joseph II had had the Burgtheater renamed after dismissing the Italian singers and their orchestra in 1776 and installing German actors in the theatre.

First established in 1895 as an amateur orchestra, under the name Sino-British Orchestra ( 中英管弦樂團 ), it was renamed the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1957, and became a professional orchestra in 1974 under the funding of the Government.

In 1979 the orchestra was renamed the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera.

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.

In 1993, the orchestra was renamed the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, to reflect more suitably its special role as both a national orchestra and a BBC Performing Group.

The resident orchestra was renamed the New Queen's Hall Orchestra.

The hall was renamed for Avery Fisher, a member of the Philharmonic board of directors, following his $ 10. 5 million donation to the orchestra in 1973.

Around this time the orchestra was renamed the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.

However as R A Edwards later pointed out in And the Glory ( his history of Huddersfield Choral Society ) that this claim was simply inaccurate ( Crowther had got a vital date wrong ); and the society ’ s present archivist now confirms that it was shortly after Thomas ’ s death that the orchestra renamed itself the Huddersfield Philharmonic, giving its first concert under that name on 7 February 1885.

Later on, he renamed the orchestra " La Banda Latina " ( Latin Band ).

The orchestra was part-funded by the British Broadcasting Company ( precursor of the BBC ), and renamed the Northern Wireless Orchestra in 1926.

In August 1949, the ensemble was formally renamed the BBC Opera orchestra.

Coinciding with Bainton's arrival in Sydney were moves to form a permanent professional orchestra for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the New South Wales Symphony Orchestra ( later renamed the Sydney Symphony ).

Because of the desperate financial circumstances, the Philharmonic offered Theodore Thomas the conductorship without conditions, and he began conducting the orchestra in the autumn of 1877.

In 1891 Charles Norman Fay, a Chicago businessman, invited Theodore Thomas to establish an orchestra in Chicago.

" He concluded his Chicago principal conductorship in June 2010, with a series of concerts of the complete Beethoven symphonies and the orchestra awarding to him the Theodore Thomas Medallion.

He soon after played with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and subsequently made many appearances in New York and other American cities with Theodore Thomas and his orchestra.

His orchestral compositions include " Riveiere arid Andante ," " Andante and Scherzo ," " Romanze ," and " Concerto ," all of which were performed by Theodore Thomas's orchestra in New York and other cities.

While in Mannheim, Charles III Philip, and later his successor Charles IV Theodore, put together what was commonly regarded as the finest orchestra in all of Europe.