MYSTIC Mystic Seaport "Neptune's Orchestra," group show.
The "Red Orchestra" group came to be known as the "Harnack-Schulze-Boysen" group.
Evoking the tradition of the Baroque concerto grosso, which juxtaposed smaller and larger groups of instruments, Mr. Dalbavie contrasts a main orchestra group dominated by a wild variety of percussion instruments with smaller soloistic groups, some onstage, some in the balconies.
The venue began as a hall for ballroom dancing and orchestra groups, but later shifted its focus through various eras of popular music, including disco, grunge, and EDM.
Mr. Chan says that almost any orchestra or group of musicians will include a significant minority who are involved in tasting groups or who gather regularly to have dinner and share wines.
Welcome to the virtual orchestra, the group that always plays on pitch and never calls for a coffee break.
Anthony Aibel, conductor of the Music Conservatory of Westchester's Mentoring Orchestra, a group based in White Plains that includes professional players and student musicians, offered another view.
The Philharmonic's top price this season (not counting gala events) is $92, and seeing a visiting orchestra, chamber group or recitalist at Carnegie Hall can range from $25 to $150.
But it is more properly the St . Petersburg StateAcademic Symphony Orchestra, a group founded in 1967 as the Orchestra of Ancient and Modern Music and known briefly (from 1985 until the end of the Soviet era) as the Leningrad State Orchestra.
But the session, part of a course on politics and culture, was about the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a group of Israeli, Palestinian and other Middle Eastern musicians who play together despite their leaders' political differences.
His primary outlet of late is the Improvisers Orchestra, a group of several dozen musicians attuned to his designs (including his wife and collaborator, the poet and vocalist Ingrid Sertso).
