Telemann reorganized the collegium musicum, the student musical society, into an efficient amateur orchestra that gave public concerts (then a novelty) and became director of the Leipzig Opera, for which he also composed.
Dae believed it was more efficient to have the orchestra complete its work in the New Jersey studio, where the acoustics were ideal and which afforded the Bennett organization some flexibility when coping with the tight schedules imposed by most of the high-profile singers it sought for the duets.
Mr. Levine was in his element in this efficient, changeable score, and the orchestra played brilliantly.
Joel Revzen's pit orchestra sounded wanly efficient and not much more.
The lovely Rondo which followed was efficient, but neither soloist nor orchestra seemed alive to its beauty; the concluding variations were brilliantly executed, but cold.
The tradition of solid, efficient and often finely polished radio orchestras that still thrives in Europe never quite took off in the United States, despite Toscanini's efforts in that direction with the NBC Symphony.
(None of the arrangements, it bears saying, took good advantage of the orchestra, though the brasses got some efficient licks in).
Though the singers shared the stage with the orchestra, Steven Tharp's direction was so efficient that the lack of space and a full set cost the production very little.
He adds: "An efficient, thrumming, technically accomplished laboratory is like a robot orchestra that produces perfectly pitched tunes but no music".
(The CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien, who sits on the orchestra's board of directors, made for an efficient host).
