Sentence examples for white orchestra from inspiring English sources

Larry Elgart's all white orchestra played.

The black-tie evening begins at 6 with a cocktail reception, followed by dinner at 7 30 and dancing to the music of the Sharaye White Orchestra.

Without that clarity and tautness, the performance relaxed into an all-too-common spectacle: a black singer performing spirituals alongside a white conductor and an overwhelmingly white orchestra in front of an overwhelmingly white audience.

The Casa Lomans' role in the history of jazz remains controversial, but it is clear that they were, at the very least, the first white orchestra to try to swing, though their rhythms were more often peppy than swinging.

Slint and My Morning Jacket are its biggest stars, along with cult singer Will Oldham, aka Bonnie "Prince" Billie, who plays around town regularly.-songwriter We catch the Ritchie White Orchestra at a dependable indie rock club called the New Vintage (2126 South Preston Street).

There's musician Valaida Snow in 1930s London, conducting a white orchestra in thrall to her; Dandridge in the 1950s, striking a pose while her Russian instructor positions her foot; Aretha Franklin backstage in Newark in 1969, eyeliner in one hand, fag in the other.

The bands led by the black pianist Fletcher Henderson in the 1920s were especially important in disseminating these musical ideas, which were picked up by white orchestras riding the later tide of swing's popularity.

I'm a classical musician, an all too rare black face on concert platforms among what are usually all-white orchestras.

Miles Davis used harsher language when he explained why he gave up studying trumpet at Juilliard: "No white symphony orchestra was going to hire a little black motherfucker like me".

After dinner, a gold-buttoned steward led them to the top floor of the museum, to peer down at a white-clad orchestra in the lobby.

The sound also did Björk's white-clad orchestra few favours, though her voice is still a thing of wonder, as piercing and direct as an icepick.