Sentence examples for So orchestras from inspiring English sources
The fees paid by festivals rarely cover costs, so orchestras usually have to pay for trips with donations from companies and individuals, foundation support and government aid.
During the last decade or so orchestras and ensembles everywhere have been reaching out to younger and newer audiences by integrating recent works and major 20th-century scores into normal programming.
So orchestra agreed to and M. Zuro summoned to wield baton.
The SO orchestra was beefed up by 20 RCS students, but still sounded drab and scrappy under conductor Timothy Dean.
So orchestra officials hunted for the right conductors: Mr. Graf, an Austrian well versed in the Straussian tradition; Mr. Thomas, a paramount Mahlerian who has recorded the symphonies with his San Francisco Symphony; and Mr. Dohnanyi, who has conducted "Ariadne" in Salzburg in recent years and was to be in Tanglewood anyway as a guest conductor.
So orchestra members came up with a clever idea - let the children use some of their other senses, like touch.
In the heyday of local authority music, the Sixties and Seventies, the gap was nothing like so great; orchestras such as the National Youth Orchestra contained a remarkable mix in their membership.
"As Funds Disappear, So Do Orchestras" (Arts pages, May 14) didn't mention one long-term factor playing a role in the demise of orchestras: the absence of arts and music education in financially strapped public schools.
But what came through, especially in a sometimes unfocused but dark-hued and impetuous account of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, was the palpable excitement of skilled artists engaged by the challenge of playing with colleagues from so many orchestras and nations.
So many orchestras and ensembles in New York present youth concerts and sponsor special outreach programs for schoolchildren that my colleagues and I find it impossible to cover them all.
"So many orchestras today are smaller, and the conductor is so wired up with technical accessories, that I really did want to pay homage to the old-fashioned Broadway orchestra," Mr. Bramble said.
