Sentence examples for modest orchestra from inspiring English sources
There is only one drawback: the acoustics of the place are such that the opera itself is magnified to gargantuan proportions; Mozart's modest orchestra is made to sound noisier than the brass band festival at the Crystal Palace.
Like the Watkins, it's scored for a relatively modest orchestra, and uses it even more sparingly, often allowing the violin to spin its high, nimble figuration without any support at all.
The work is scored for chorus, here the estimable New York Choral Artists (Joseph Flummerfelt, director) and a modest orchestra of roughly 60 players, including performers of exotic instruments from Russian folk traditions like the balalaika and the gusli, a Russian zither.
Holloway uses a relatively modest orchestra with discretion and discrimination, yet the middle and lower registers of Fleming's fluid soprano were masked at times, though her higher notes rose bright and glittering above the texture, especially in the soaring phrases of the final song, La Mer Est Plus Belle.
With this seemingly modest work, scored for a small orchestra and lasting only 24 minutes, a new symphonic era began.
On the gospel-steeped ballad "Jagadishwar," Mr. Coltrane played his tenor saxophone with Mr. Haden, Mr. Watts, the pianist Geri Allen and a modest string orchestra.
So far the effort has been modest: the Orchestra of the League of Composers, led by Louis Karchin, made its debut last June and returned for a second appearance on Monday evening at the Miller Theater.
He had been playing in public since he was eight, and at 13 he made a modest debut with orchestra, in the Saint-Saëns A minor Concerto.
Except for an elaborate percussion battery, it requires relatively modest forces: an orchestra of 57, a chorus of about 45 and three vocal soloists -- mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass -- in multiple roles.
Mr. Holliger's music -- like that of many Swiss musicians, including Honegger and Frank Martin -- sometimes echoes with Bach, and occasionally the highly active, modest-size "Schneewittchen" orchestra will settle into a chorale or a contrapuntal invention, thoroughly reimagined for the late 20th-century context.
The Berlin Philharmonic, reconstituted as a cultural-political superweapon for the cold war, is the obvious anomaly, but we have been visited in New York by other German orchestras whose modest skills made one wonder why they were not at home tending honorably to local constituents.
