(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.
Tutti
Definition:
(n. pl.) All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together.
Example Sentences:
(1) It had been a key part of Tate's Modern's Pop Life show , which also contains works by Warhol, Jeff Koons and Cosey Fanni Tutti, but the room containing it was sealed off following a visit by officers from the Met's obscene publications unit two weeks ago.
(2) The inquiry took more than a year to be constituted and, when it was, it was on terms that human rights and civil liberties organisations could not accept: those who alleged torture would not be allowed to question those they believed had been complicit in their abuse, while the publication of material would be a matter for Whitehall's capo di tutti capi, the cabinet secretary.
(3) Read more On Monday, Grillo tweeted that the referendum contained a lesson for everyone: “You cannot keep lying to the people without suffering consequences.” Beppe Grillo (@beppe_grillo) Una lezione per tutti: non si può mentire per sempre al popolo senza subire conseguenze December 5, 2016 Many analysts were quick to point out that M5S still faces considerable obstacles, including probable reforms of electoral law that will make it difficult for the party to get a majority.
(4) There was no trend in preference among the remaining suspensions (banana, tutti-frutti, grape, and unflavored).
(5) Or they'd looked at John Byrne's remarkable paintings, or caught his series Tutti Frutti on TV.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Capo di tutti capi: Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Brian de Palma’s 1993 film Scarface.
(7) She is due to earn £110,000 for her three or four day week at the BBC and she had arrived at the hearing in an outfit that must have cost at least a year's salary and wouldn't have been out of place at a capo di tutti capi's mafia funeral.
(8) Andreotti was later accused by Tommaso Buscetta, a mafia supergrass, of having been involved with organised crime, and of having exchanged a ritual kiss with the capo di tutti i capi (boss of all bosses), Salvatore Riina.
(9) I bring up the blockbuster di tutti blockbusters, The Avengers, the billion-dollar-grossing amalgamation of all the previous movies.