orchestra

Example Sentences

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“Rhodes — and Finney — employ the steel guitar inventively, not just to evoke notes of melancholy often found in country music, but to bring an orchestra’s worth of color, texture and shading to the arrangements.”

From Los Angeles Times

She has orchestra friends and newspaper friends and neighborhood friends she’s known her entire life.

From Literature

He played the French horn to get a college scholarship, but found he didn’t want to play in orchestras for the rest of his life.

From MarketWatch

It was like standing in the center of a huge orchestra, with kettle drums pounding on all sides.

From Literature

Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” for speaker and orchestra, written in 1942 in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack, had been slated for a performance at Dwight D. Eisenhower’s inauguration in 1952.

From Los Angeles Times