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Recent Examples of sinfoniettaAnd much of the balance between his group and the sinfonietta was yet to be hashed out.—Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
Violins, for instance, now use metal strings instead of ones made from animal gut, and some of the instruments noted in the original score are no longer used by modern orchestras.
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Chelsea Bailey,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
The treatment began with a healing ceremony in the spa’s lush outdoor lounge, where a small orchestra of local instruments re-created the sounds of the jungle, complete with jaguar screams.
The City of Light is full of all the best clichés: Parisians cycling with bread in their bike basket, brass bands serenading crowds on stone bridges over the Seine, picnickers drinking Champagne and eating cheese on blankets in front of the Eiffel Tower.
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Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
An emotional procession began, led by a brass band, and the crowd followed walking somberly, dancing, and crying.
The Knights, the contemporary chamber orchestra, is continuing its Rhapsody commissioning project this season at Carnegie Hall.
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Jane Levere,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2024
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.
Violins that are hundreds of years old still have seats in the top symphony orchestras around the world.
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Parker Hall,
WIRED,
2 Feb. 2025
New sounds: Check out these new musical instruments The standard configuration of the symphony orchestra has remained mostly unchanged for the past century.
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