Still, during long stretches the music, as orchestrated here, hovered uneasily in some middle ground, sounding at times like a jazz ensemble beefed up with an orchestra and at other times like an orchestra jolted by jazz.
Marshall juxtaposes a description of the celebration Scott orchestrated here for the coronation of Edward VII (complete with musicians arriving on a train of elephants) with the army's omnipresent Land Rovers and trucks filled with soldiers carrying automatic rifles.
This is the most classical of the symphonies in form and content, an inventive and ingeniously orchestrated work, played here with plush, textured sound and winning grace.
Mr. Haden had the strings play the mournful beginning of Lennie Tristano's "Requiem," recorded after Charlie Parker's death as a solo-piano piece, here orchestrated by Quartet West's pianist Alan Broadbent.
Mr. Putin, who once served as a deputy governor here, orchestrated the removal of the old governor, Vladimir A. Yakovlev, by appointing him to the presidential administration before his current term expired.
While the period re-creation may not be to everyone's liking, the design here, orchestrated by Mark Leithauser, feels solid and is completely appropriate to John Russell Pope's Georgian architecture.
The menu offers a bit of everything the orchestra is known for, with an emphasis on Russian fare: "Pictures at an Exhibition," with Mussorgsky's music here orchestrated by Ravel; Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia"; and Prokofiev's first violin concerto, with Sandra Wolf-Meei Cameron, 16, as the soloist.
He also orchestrated scores for "From Here to Eternity," "The Sand Pebbles," "Patton," "Chinatown" and the "Star Trek" movies.
Participants carried signs reading "We don't need an Arab Spring!" and "No to Orange Revolutions," a reference to the 2004 pro-Western Orange Revolution in Ukraine, which is widely seen here as orchestrated by the United States.
GENEVA -- A carefully orchestrated, closely-watched meeting here between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart began awkwardly Friday night with a linguistic miscue that had diplomats wincing.
Plan India, the NGO orchestrating the festivities here, decided that the first girl born at the community health center in Mall village, 40 kilometers from Lucknow, would be christened as India's "seven billion baby".
