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Orchestra. Bucharest Symphony Orchestra. National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia. An orchestra ( / ˈɔːrkɪstrə /; OR-ki-strə) [ 1] is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: String instruments, such as the violin ...
Pictures at an Exhibition [a] is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year.
The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. It is the most numerous group in the standard orchestra. In discussions of the instrumentation of a musical work, the phrase "the strings" or "and strings" is used to indicate a ...
Piano Quintet arr. for symphony orchestra (world premiere performance and recording) [5] Sea Pictures , version for choir and strings (world premiere) [ 5 ] Viktor Ullmann arr. Kenneth Woods: Chamber Symphony, arr. of String Quartet No. 3 for string orchestra (UK premiere)
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras . The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood 's Queen's Hall Orchestra because of a new rule requiring players to give the orchestra their exclusive services.
Dallas, Texas, United States. Concert hall. Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Music director. Fabio Luisi. Website. www .mydso .com. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is an American orchestra based in Dallas, Texas. Its principal performing venue is the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in the Arts District of downtown Dallas.
The immediate precursor ensemble to the current orchestra was the Cincinnati Orchestra, founded in 1872. In 1893, Helen Herron Taft founded the Cincinnati Orchestra Association, and the name of the orchestra was formalised to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra gave its first concerts in 1895 at Pike's Opera House.
Concert hall. Benaroya Hall. Principal conductor. (post vacant) Website. www .seattlesymphony .org. The Seattle Symphony is an American orchestra based in Seattle, Washington. Since 1998, the orchestra is resident at Benaroya Hall. The orchestra also serves as the accompanying orchestra for the Seattle Opera .