Such listeners can often be more open to challenging contemporary works that your typical symphony orchestra subscriber.
In the middle of the war, he dared to compare the typical American orchestra to "a Panzer division on the march".
In 1979, the composer Gunther Schuller, then the co-director of Tanglewood's education wing, declared that the typical American orchestra had become a soulless mechanism, hostile to creativity.
Handel's score calls for a typical Baroque orchestra of a few dozen players, largely strings and woodwinds, with only minimal brass and percussion, along with a small, though skillful, chorus.
"I wonder if people realize in the typical symphony orchestra paradigm how anesthetizing it is to an audience to be given the explicit or inferred message that 'you're probably not up to this,' " Mr. Schick said.
Anima Eterna is about the size of a typical pit orchestra for the ballet; the music (being dance music) suffers not at all from being conducted in strict time; and the delicate scoring ensures that the timbres of the period instruments take center stage.
Even if your instrument isn't included in a typical band, orchestra, or ensemble, music festivals, churches, and music demonstrations will be glad to have you.
It is typical for orchestras of well-trained young musicians to convey exuberance.
The large orchestra typical of the late 19th through the mid-20th century incorporated an average of 100 performers and might include a wide variety of instruments and devices required in specific works.
You may also want to learn how to transpose from Eb and F, which allows you to play music from almost any instrument in a typical band or orchestra.
