What's the difference between orchestra and philharmonic?
Orchestra
Definition:
(n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
(n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
(n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
(n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
(n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
(n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
(2) The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francois-Xavier Roth in 2007.
(3) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(4) As Brooklyn-based Sudanese vocalist Alsarah put it: "We came in as separate musicians, but we're now creating a little orchestra with a new sound – a Nile sound."
(5) He opens the residency on 23 June with Ludwig van Beethoven , a composer he has never performed in London with this orchestra.
(6) The plans also follow the high-profile interruption by protesters of a performance by the St Louis Symphony Orchestra.
(7) "Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened.
(8) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
(9) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(10) There was a long-standing anomaly that while the in-house symphony orchestras and the music broadcasts, including the Proms, were administered by Drummond's department, all the scheduling was in the hands of the controller of Radio 3, a post then held by Ian McIntyre, a journalist with no great sympathy for music.
(11) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
(12) In 1936 Lee was briefly drummer with trumpeter Buck Clayton's Fourteen Gentlemen of Harlem and later toured with singer Ethel Waters's orchestra.
(13) The existence of two leading orchestras in one broadcasting organisation is a legacy of the allied occupation of Germany after the second world war.
(14) Their Prom in 2007 was the event of the decade in this country: a gig that transcended all the usual boundaries of a classical concert, such was the interest generated by the story behind the orchestra, and the commitment of its players.
(15) In attempting to fight off closure in the past couple of years, the orchestra had reached a new audience by playing concerts at community centres.
(16) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
(17) His enthusiasm for new music was balanced by an acute historical perspective and a love of young people: he greatly increased the number of appearances by youth orchestras, upping it to five in the 1993 season.
(18) He oversees Radio 3 , the Proms, five BBC orchestras, the BBC Singers and the choruses attached to two of the orchestras.
(19) All of these ensembles are founded with different values from those of a conventional orchestra.
(20) You're as likely to see the entire brass section of the Halle Orchestra running across the road at the interval for a swift pint as you are a room full of drunken retired policemen.
Philharmonic
Definition:
(a.) Loving harmony or music.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
(2) Abbado was the recipient of numerous awards including one of the UK's highest classical music honours, the Royal Philharmonic Society's Gold Medal in 2003.
(3) Indigenous performers like the Sami singer Elle Márjá Eira will be playing with acts like "arctic ambient" musician Biosphere ; Wardruna, a black-metal-affiliated band who play traditional Norwegian instruments; and musicians from the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra , who will be performing on the beach.
(4) When it comes to North Korea, I tend to be a little bit sceptical about these sorts of things,” Nye said, recalling the much-heralded trip that the New York Philharmonic made to Pyongyang in 2008 , which did nothing for US-North Korea relations.
(5) It was with Mahler's Second Symphony that Abbado made his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1965, when, aged 32, he was invited by Karajan to conduct the orchestra at that year's Salzburg Festival (he recalls his teacher in Vienna, Hans Swarowsky, one of the century's great conducting pedagogues, ironically complimenting him after the performance, "Ah look, the new Toscanini!").
(6) Liverpudlian Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic.
(7) "So," concludes the teacher, Sally Anne Anderson from the Philharmonic, "every time that I or another teacher repeats those words, we'll remember our friends from Venezuela."
(8) Large jazz ensemble album: Night in Calisia, Randy Brecker, Wlodek Pawlik Trio and Kalisz Philharmonic.
(9) • West Side Story, with live accompaniment by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra , screens at the Royal Albert Hall, London SW7 (0845 401 5045), 22-24 June.
(10) Among the many heartfelt, Sir Simon Rattle, who succeeded Abbado as the Berlin Philharmonic's principal conductor, said : "We have lost a great musician and a very generous man.
(11) Rahbari, the Iranian-born music leader who has spent most of his life in Austria, is internationally known and has conducted more than 120 European orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and London Philharmonic.
(12) A few minutes after I started talking to the kora player, we realised we had both worked with the Berlin Philharmonic.
(13) We said in a report about the assisted deaths of Sir Edward and Lady Downes that Sir Edward became principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in 1990.
(14) For the first time in a generation, there's hardly a weak link in any of the relationships between the maestros and their orchestras: the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo and now Andris Nelsons; the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with Kirill Karabits; the Hallé with Mark Elder; the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko; the Northern Sinfonia with Thomas Zehetmair.
(15) The communique is endorsed by more than 400 arts, academic and scientific institutions and individuals, including the Creative Industries Federation, the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Philharmonic Society , Rada, the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and St Andrews, and – among others – Cox, Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the cellist and principal of Birmingham Conservatoire, Julian Lloyd Webber.
(16) Look at the work of orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, which runs workshops for people with dementia, or the collaboration between the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and NHS Mersey Trust, which puts musicians in residence to work with adults with a complex range of mental health issues.
(17) And how does he feel having the London Philharmonic as his pit band?
(18) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
(19) Marin Alsop will conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra in front of a giant screen.
(20) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 16 July 2009 In the article below we said that Sir Edward Downes became principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in 1990.