chamber orchestra

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Recent Examples of chamber orchestra 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 The 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 See all Example Sentences for chamber orchestra 
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Noun
  • Violins that are hundreds of years old still have seats in the top symphony orchestras around the world.
    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.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Janna A. Zanzi, AFAR Media, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There was this orchestra playing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ in schools.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
  • As music bubbled through the city’s wards, Black orchestras performed for Black audiences and tweaked classical tunes in early antecedents of jazz.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025

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