chamber orchestra

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Recent Examples of chamber orchestra The 70-voice chorale will be accompanied by an organist and a chamber orchestra. Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025 Also on the program will be Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s The History of Red, a piece for chamber orchestra and soprano inspired in part by Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 The piece includes sixteen vocalists, a sixteen-piece chamber orchestra, and two video installations, all of which is meant to emphasize our interdependence. The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024 The chamber orchestra performs five concerts a year and has an annual budget that hovers around $300,000. Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for chamber orchestra
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Noun
  • Young musicians coming out of music schools should be aware of all the other kinds of music, and should be able to play those other types of music, because 95 percent of them will not play in symphony orchestras or as soloists.
    George Varga, Mercury News, 28 July 2025
  • Every sizable American city has its symphony orchestra, but will this always be true?
    David Denby, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • Hundreds more joined a brass band parade known as a second line.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Still, a sense of exuberance and communion filled the streets where hundreds joined a brass band parade known as a second line.
    Jack Brook, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Accompanied – for the first time ever – by a live orchestra, Clinton will present gems from his songbook, backed by the Detroit Opera Orchestra as directed by Ray Chew.
    Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The Dedinis didn’t know where to go to find frogs or how to distinguish the croaks of legal species against the nighttime wilderness orchestra.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025

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