His first orchestral work, "Late Victorians," a piece for chamber orchestra and vocal soloists, was performed by Eclipse, an ensemble of players from the National Symphony Orchestra.
Edgar Meyer is the bassist and Anne-Marie McDermott the pianist in an ensemble of players all of whom will be familiar to Chamber Music Society fans.
By the mid-1980's the porous roster of young players coalesced into a core ensemble of players who had become fixtures of chamber music life in New York.
Since then, the balance has, if not entirely reversed, then at least shifted significantly, to the point where Waits comes armed with a small ensemble of players able to accommodate the variety of instrumental colouration in his songs, while the lyrics have to some extent retreated into a netherworld of nursery rhymes and familiar folksong phraseology.
Midnight and 2 a.m., S.O.B.'s, 204 Varick Street, at Houston Street, South Village, (212 243-4940, $22 to $25. (Sinagra) SUN-RA ARKESTRA, MC5, DJ SPOOKY (Tomorrow) The alto saxophonist Marshall Allen carries on the tradition of the legendary jazz bandleader Sun Ra, directing the ensemble of players young and old in a program that seamlessly mixes swing, skronk and squeal.
In two concerts this season a small ensemble of players from the orchestra will present commissioned works by Marc-André Dalbavie and Matthias Pintscher, both established figures, and by Arthur Kampela, Lei Liang, Nico Muhly, Sean Shepherd and Arlene Sierra, emerging artists at various points in their career trajectories.
Usually part of an ensemble cast of players in a recipe, this week, vanilla takes centre stage.
Out of a core ensemble of 70 players, only four or five leave each year.
At Carnegie, he had a chorus of twenty-one singers and an ensemble of twenty-six players.
Joined by an ensemble of string players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Mr. Denk played six of the seven Bach keyboard concertos.
The band is backed by an ensemble of string players and a children's choir from the Silverlake Conservatory.
