Sentence examples for orchestra comprises from inspiring English sources

What makes it distressing is not only that Mr. Glass is hardly underplayed but also that the American Composers Orchestra comprises many specialists with a virtuosity honed by the demands of new music.

(The school used to field orchestras under several names, the Juilliard Orchestra being the elite band. Now it presents various ensembles of shifting makeup under one name. The Juilliard Orchestra comprises all 343 students who have passed the auditions. And in a nod toward democracy, the groups are studiedly mixed, each ranging from undergraduates to doctoral candidates).

The orchestra comprised a single piano.

The last festival orchestra, comprising only Swiss musicians, was disbanded in 1993, reportedly because of falling standards.

One of its networks, the "Red Orchestra," comprised several hundred agents and informers, including agents in the German ministries of foreign affairs, labour, propaganda, and economics.

In the early days the orchestra comprised 72 players all on yearly contract to Beecham, giving him first call on their services, subject to reasonable notice, but not otherwise restricting their freedom to play for other ensembles.

Wielding the baton sometimes like a rapier before the massive sound that I had called for, and sometimes like a matador's cape, she coordinated and shaped the combined efforts of an all-star orchestra comprised of professionals from orchestras all over the country.

Palmer and her band (per Amanda -- "the perfect band, The Grand Theft Orchestra, comprised of genius musicians/arrangers/programmers Michael McQuilken, Chad Raines, and Jherek Bischoff") will play one final show before she takes her first lengthy break from the performance stage since before the Dresden Dolls (and Yes, Virginia, that was a long long time ago).

The total vocal and instrumental resources required for the oratorio are a SATB chorus with soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, and an orchestra comprising two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, timpani, cymbals and strings.

They sold it to a family friend: a hedge-fund owner with whom Lauren had played in the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, a non-professional orchestra comprising, in part, plutocrats whose overachievement extends to the musical realm.

Poulenc's principal works for large orchestra comprise two ballets, a Sinfonietta and four keyboard concertos.