Sentence examples for orchestra from inspiring English sources

The short work for mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra will be performed in the Olympic stadium-sized equestrian centre beside the derelict Necarne castle, a space she described as "amazing – and with a perfect acoustic".

It's an excellent wee theatre, Milton Keynes, and not just because the authorities there are civilised enough to allow you to imbibe; a 1400-seater auditorium with a pit big enough to take a large orchestra (Welsh National Opera have toured Wozzeck here in the past), but with a Glyndebourne-esque sense of intimacy and immediacy.

In his live performances he is a master of that kind of conviction: his most recent show, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, a staging of his latest album Swanlights, saw him bathed in the green glow of lasers, accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra while keening rapturously about a vision of "being dead, underwater and filled with crystals of light".

Despite the gallows humour a harsh reality awaits the five remaining orchestra members once the final note is sounded at the end of this year.

It was a worthy company, but nothing like the organisation that has just mounted a superb production of Die Meistersinger in its large theatre with first-rate acoustics which can accommodate their fine orchestra.

One of the best things about the orchestra is its democratic roots.

Performing to the finished film changes the way an orchestra plays, BSO Music Director Marin Alsop says.

A pianist has been struck off the concert programme with a Canadian orchestra for expressing her support for pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine.

When the house lights go down for the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood on 22 February, much of the speculation will be about Birdman, Boyhood and whether JK Simmons, star of Whiplash, will berate the orchestra for being slightly off-tempo.

Don't get too depressed in the first stage and orchestra rehearsal, when you hear your favourite line has disappeared Enlightened opera house education departments and music academies occasionally offer short courses – such as the Jerwood opera-writing course run by Aldeburgh Music every four years – which pair up composers new to opera with writers keen to explore the genre.

A focus of the celebrations has been the orchestra's association with the Nazi party, with a new book (The Reich's Orchestra by Canadian historian Misha Aster) and film on the subject.