orchestra
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For their first performance, the principles wore their own costumes, and a "scratch" orchestra was formed of local musicians.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
And her performance of the lead single Berghain - with Bjork, a full orchestra and a youth choir - on stage at the Brit Awards in February brought her to a wider audience.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
There are creaky sections with various bits of percussion and tapped string overtones conveying an otherworldly Harry Partch-like texture, the sort of junkyard orchestra that inspired Tom Waits in the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Timo Kurkikangas’s sound design could use some tweaks—the spoken text was sometimes tinny or drowned out by the orchestra.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Taken all together, the moving planets made a “harmony of the spheres,” and the heavens are a beautiful mathematical orchestra.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing orchestra
Music - Introductory
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Music - Middle School
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Theater - Introductory
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