Synonym: band, ensemble. Similar words: orchestrate, war chest, chest, restrain, dire straits, unrestrained, sequestration, extraterrestrial. Meaning: ['ɔrkɪstrə /'ɔːk-] n. 1. a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players 2. seating on the main floor in a theater.
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151. Downstairs was the brasserie where a palm-court orchestra would play selections from the shows of the day.
152. The octave combinations are practically confined, in the small orchestra, to 1. Double bass and bassoon. 2.
153. They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose.
154. After each conductor leads the orchestra in the morning sessions, some will be called back for afternoon finals.
155. On the Monday night the orchestra arrived ready for the dress rehearsal of Gypsy Baron the next morning.
156. The little orchestra was playing a minuet when she began to descend the sumptuously draped stairs.
157. The octave combinations are practically confined, in the small orchestra, to 1.
158. Indeed in the string orchestra, they often give the illusion that bassoons or horns are playing.
159. The programme includes choral works, and music for string orchestra.
160. Janelle Olsen, principal flute with the orchestra since 1999, has been nurtured from birth in the warmth of classical music.
161. Braxton has composed for a 37-piece orchestra which he conducts here.
162. The orchestra, under its guest conductor Nicholas Braithwaite, unfolded the complex textures with care and clarity.
163. The orchestra played superbly.
164. Afterwards he told me that one or two of the younger players in the orchestra had never played the overture before.
165. The interest was again chiefly rhythmic and required the most meticulous playing by all sections in the orchestra.
166. Hence there is nothing improvisatory about the collaboration between this conductor and his orchestra.
166. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
167. I need an orchestra and a conductor and a clean hall to rehearse in.
168. Take the orchestra out of the pit, and unless you emasculate their contribution, the problem is compounded.
169. The chorus is on fine form, and the orchestra plays sensitively.
170. Sombre, though with a pacy, filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale.
171. The story lacks tension and, when the full orchestra is blasting, is hard to follow.
172. Auditions are also to be held for the brass ensemble, the junior brass ensembles and the baroque orchestra courses.
173. His band are reedy and twiddly; to work, Almond's stuff needs a huge orchestra capable of great drama.
174. But it is the Home Office and indeed the ministers who are playing their part inthe orchestra.
175. Beaufort Opera shifted their 30 singers, a full orchestra and 130 spectators into the farm building at Brownsea Island in Dorset.
176. The large orchestra was very well conducted by Ormsby Wilkins, who, like the two ballets, received great applause.
177. The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing.
178. Receiving a Harmonious Edit Imagine listening to a symphony orchestra playing Beethoven.
179. He appeared at the 1975 Berlin jazz festival with Jazztrack and with the Michael Gibbs orchestra.
180. It is usual for a pupil to play in each orchestra for at least two years before being promoted.
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