Sentence examples similar to growing orchestra from inspiring English sources

The image of a growing number of performers singing "Just One Person" was recreated for the 1990 television special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson and inspired screenwriter Richard Curtis, who attended the London service, to write the growing-orchestra wedding scene of his 2003 film Love Actually.

The financial challenge has grown as orchestras that could once count on support from business leaders and industrialists — when the Pittsburgh Symphony was founded at the turn of the last century, Pittsburgh was a booming steel town, and Andrew Carnegie helped support the ensemble — now must struggle to raise money in a very different kind of economy.

Dudamel and his orchestra are growing up.

I've tried to make up for all the ridiculous privileges I've had myself – growing up "in" an orchestra, having my music played publicly at an absurd age – so in a way I'm paying my dues, but I'm happy to.

Ms. Lindsey brought an attractive timbre and a communicative sense of line to three Ives songs, but she was at her best in the latest of the orchestra's growing collection of commissions, Jacob Bancks's "... among the leaves... .. (2007), a colorfully orchestrated, invitingly lyrical setting of a Joyce fragment (from "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man").

The standard of the orchestra is growing all the time, and a European tour is on the cards for 2012.

As I was growing up in this orchestra, I saw musicians practice on the instruments.

Kennedy speculates that Boult's change of mind was due to a growing conviction that the orchestra would be "seriously jeopardized financially" if Russell remained in post.

When Mehta left in 1978 to become music director of the New York Philharmonic, he was succeeded by the much-admired Giulini, whose appointment Fleischmann felt acknowledged the orchestra's growing status.

In fact, his growing involvement with American orchestras at a time when he is supposed to be increasingly committed to the London Philharmonic, may raise some eyebrows.

But we can assume that in a time when music was routinely tinkered with to bring it up to date, when orchestras were growing in size and when conductors were beginning to exert authority, the "Jupiter" evolved from festive galante politeness to Romantic assertion.