Sentence examples for empty orchestra from inspiring English sources

At the Coliseum last week, dismay at the sight of an empty orchestra pit was tempered by sympathy.

In the theater's otherwise empty orchestra level, seven judges sat isolated behind their laptops, waiting for him to begin.

The dancer, Leah Boresow, a high school senior, plunged into the empty orchestra pit and suffered serious injuries.

Karaoke, ( Japanese: "empty orchestra") Use of a device that plays instrumental accompaniments to songs with the vocal tracks removed, permitting the user to sing the lead.

Karaoke, which means "empty orchestra" in Japanese, became a global phenomenon in the 1990s, and nearly 11,000 British pubs and bars ran karaoke nights at its peak.

Karaoke ("empty orchestra" in Japanese) dates back to the 1970s, when a Kobe-based drummer merged an eight-track player with a microphone.

Mr. Noseda did a double-take when he realized that the pit was nearly empty (the orchestra had left faster than suburbanites in the audience trying to beat the crowd to the garage) and walked briskly to the center of the raked stage.

Karaoke, a combination of the Japanese words for "empty" and "orchestra," was conceived in 1971 when Daisuke Inoue, a mediocre drummer living in Kobe, invented a machine that produced five minutes of singalong time for less than a dollar.

The massed choral ensemble at the prison that ends Act I is a blatant pile-on of materials: the sisters and children singing the gospel tune, the shouts of the lecherous inmates, the quartet of anguished parents and the empty venting of the orchestra.

Only a handful of orchestra seats sat empty.

But the cast was nowhere to be seen, and the expensive orchestra seats were empty.