The word 'philharmonic' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as an adjective meaning related to or forming an orchestra or large musical group, or referring to music played by an orchestra or large musical group. For example: I was so enchanted by the philharmonic music that I almost forgot to leave the concert hall.
Ancerl had flourished as the builder, director and inspiration of the Czech Philharmonic to its standing among the greatest orchestras in the world during the 1960s and 70s.
Then, she suggested that reducing the number of orchestras would lead to our having a superorchestra such as the Berlin Philharmonic.
The Berlin Philharmonic players earn a basic salary for so many sessions a week, and everything else (extra concerts, TV shows, recordings etc) is an extra fee.
Ancerl also survived Auschwitz and went on to become one of the greatest conductors and interpreters of music – some say the greatest – of his generation with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
There she pursued her career as an actress, and in 1956 Karel Ancerl visited Melbourne with the Czech Philharmonic.
There's something nostalgic about the whole monumental, lavishly packaged, project, though, which harks back to a pre-digital time when box sets ruled the record shops, and Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic were the acme of classical music glamour.
Raymond Ovens Former violinist and leader of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and ENO Orchestra, and former co-leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and Royal Philharmonic Some time ago I took issue with Charlotte Higgins (Letters, 5 March 2011).
Most orchestras would mark a big anniversary with as much pomp and circumstance as they could muster, but not the Berlin Philharmonic.
As well as appearing in the new series of Hotel Babylon, she's releasing a new single called "The Star who Fell from Grace" with the Prague Philharmonic in July (she and Avengers co-star Patrick Macnee had a Top 10 hit with "Kinky Boots" in 1990).
Today we have a meeting of old and new from Deutsche Grammophon and their 50-CD celebration of a century recording the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, symbolised by the release of a tortuous anachronism, something they say could be "the oldest ever recording ever to be released as a new digital single".
The call for the boycott came from Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which last week was involved in disrupting a performance by the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra at the BBC Proms in London.
