Although the films on the DVD come from different eras of film exhibition — embracing the evolution from storefront nickelodeons with their programs of one- and two-reel narratives to the movie palaces of the 1920s, with their full-length features and live orchestras — the types here suggest the breadth of a typical evening at the movies during the silent era.
On Saturday the orchestra played against type in a weird but instructive all-Bartok program.
Wholly unscientific, the experiment showed, more than anything else, what stirring results Mr. Fischer could achieve in standard fare with an excellent orchestra of any type.
When most people think of a harp, they either picture a large, golden pedal harp in an orchestra or some type of lyre being played by angels on a Christmas card.
After 1964 the BBC SO was the only one of the five London symphony orchestras that was not self-governed, and some musicians felt that the BBC SO's constitution as a body of salaried employees, with no say in the management or repertory of the orchestra, attracted an unadventurous type of player.
Ancient Japanese court orchestra music had three types of tsuzumi drums, of which only the san no tsuzumi form survives in komagaku style (courtly music of Japanese, Korean, and other non-Chinese, non-Indian ancestry).
And on Sunday the orchestra reverts to Italian operatic type (albeit with a French twist), adding overtures and excerpts from Rossini's "Guglielmo Tell," Verdi's "Vespri Siciliani" and Puccini's "Manon Lescaut".
This is the type of income orchestras need.
British orchestras often use a larger type of one-headed bass drum known as a gong drum.
The Welsh National Opera is based at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, while the National Youth Orchestra of Wales was the first of its type in the world.
