Sentence examples for orchestra size from inspiring English sources

It's surprising how much like modern instruments they sound, considerations of orchestra size and balance aside.

String sound was appropriately dense despite the cut-down orchestra size.

Cut down to almost chamber orchestra size for the Mahler, the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa played exquisitely behind Mr. Hampson and blared with great clarity in the symphony.

It's a very difficult concession that we've made on orchestra sizes.

Matinee and evening curtain times came and went yesterday, and all but one Broadway musical stayed dark, as musicians continued their strike over minimum orchestra sizes, and actors and stagehands joined their picket lines.

The expansiveness of his music was reflected in his performances (he traveled with a full choir of singers as well as an orchestra-size band) and his personal life (he married 27 women in one ceremony).

Part of the hope involves increasing the orchestra's size, wages and artistic caliber.

She has been promised an increase in the orchestra's size (to 125 places from 116) and has won a small rise in the overall budget.

Pittsburgh's musicians went on strike after rejecting a management proposal that they said would cut their pay by 15percentt in the first year, freeze their pensions and reduce the orchestra's size.

It was originally scored, with composer-approved orchestrations by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, for a pit band of 30, but when United Artists filmed the work in 1961, Mr. Ramin, Mr. Kostal and Saul Chaplin expanded the orchestra's size and palette to full symphonic heft.

Sullivan argued hard for an increase in the pit orchestra's size, and starting with The Yeomen of the Guard, the orchestra was augmented with a second bassoon and a bass trombone.