There's nothing wrong with opening up our ideas about what American music can be and how an American orchestra fits into that framework".
"Chinese Rhapsody" (1992) and "Wu" (1986/91) are examples of the extraordinary power Mr. Ge can summon with a full orchestra fitted with Chinese percussion.
And on Monday evening at Avery Fisher Hall, the Cleveland Orchestra, led by its music director, Franz Welser-Möst Welser-MöstMessiaen's "Trois performediturgies de la Présence Divine" of 1944, a piece for a chorus of sopranos, piano and an orchestra fitted out with exotic instruMessiaenlongside works by Beethoven.
The excellent Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which fit snugly into the room, works without a conductor.
Each lamp in Salvo and Vercelli's 96-light orchestra was fitted with its own copper coil, allowing it to receive various electrical currents at programmed intervals.
When this ambitious and smoothly flowing but punishingly long, bloodless journey through jazz history had its American premiere at the New York Philharmonic's opening night in 2010, it was written in six sections — although the orchestra, needing to fit its gala into a PBS broadcast, played only five.
There are not enough seats in the front of the Kodak's orchestra section to fit all of the nominees, which means that some will have to sit in the parterre, separated from the main orchestra seats by a wide aisle.
The chorus has been cut down to 12 and the orchestra to 22 to fit on the "Late Show" stage.
It's something I can move in that doesn't distract me or the orchestra – and it fits the music on the programme.
Mr. Laredo pushed Dvorak's "New World" Symphony very hard: too fast for an established orchestra, perhaps, but fitting for the sincerity, high-energy enthusiasm and physical ability of this particular group.
