: a small orchestra usually with one player for each part
Examples of chamber orchestra in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe performance will be in seven to 10 capital cities with a orchestra, with a youth element that will explore the Donovan song catalog, which begins with a simple acoustic guitar and develops into a fusion of jazz and classical and chamber orchestra style.—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024 Monday’s in-person concert will feature a chamber orchestra as well as musicians playing traditional Afghan instruments: the tabla, harmonium, and the rubâb, the majestic 18-string national instrument of Afghanistan.—Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023 The 70-voice ensemble founded by longtime Harvard choral director Jameson Marvin and now led by Kevin Leong sings an ambitious program of Bach, Handel, Lotti and Schutz, featuring an enviable lineup of local soloists and a Baroque chamber orchestra.—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023 On the first Friday of the month, the museum hosts live music performances from chamber orchestras and jazz ensembles (from 6 p.m.).—Ingrid K. Williams, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023 The Handel selections, accompanied by a pocket-size chamber orchestra, were characteristically vibrant, which was all the more haunting in the concert’s context.—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023 Enter Email Sign Up The festival started with a small chamber orchestra that used to play on Melody Island in Lake Winnipesaukee, and grew into an event that, for the past three years, has taken place at the Silver Center for the Arts at Plymouth State University.—Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023 With a chamber orchestra’s reduced string sections — and with a conductor with little experience of the hall — both solos and ensembles of winds and brasses were sometimes too prominent in balances.—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 21 June 2023 This could be a chamber orchestra, a string quartet, a solo piano, a brass band.—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
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