Distraction was provided, however, by Armitage's dancers arriving on the narrow platform behind the orchestra shortly before its close.
The tragedy plays itself out on a narrow platform in front of the orchestra.
Concert hall design used to be simple enough: the classical shape known as the "shoebox" with an orchestra at one tall, narrow end and the audience facing them in seried ranks.
The orchestra, under Francesco Corti, had narrow escapes but saved their fire for the interludes, so turbulent and grand you wonder about Strauss's odd intention.
The Long Island Philharmonic's search for a successor to its music director, David Lockington, who leaves the orchestra in May, has been narrowed to four conductors who will audition for the job during the 2000-2001 season.
In the early days, people lent chairs from their own homes, carrying them through the narrow streets to the ramshackle theatre to ensure the orchestra could sit down.
In the heart of this structure, connected to the outside world by a narrow metal bridge, a gaunt, wild-eyed conductor leads an orchestra in an ear-splitting symphony of industrial rock.
Denis grew up in England and would rivet everyone with tales of fistfights in British schoolyards and rugged, narrow escapes -- at the same time maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA, playing in a professional orchestra, and speaking Gaelic.
He added some horns, for one thing (by members of Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra), and brought echo and texture and atmosphere to a band whose sound is as narrow as a Giacometti sculpture.
Orchestration is somewhat the narrower term, since it is frequently used to describe the art of instrumentation as related to the symphony orchestra.
