orchestra
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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
This Music May Contain Hope fuses old-school jazz with an orchestra, blues, big band and soul, reflecting what Raye told the BBC last year.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
He frequently uses the instrumentalists in the chamber orchestra like theatrical characters.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Conductor Robert Spano ably managed the intricate ensembles, the opera’s relentless drive, and an orchestra pit so small that some players had to perform amplified from a separate room.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
At the dances, Dad would sit by himself against a wall, as far away from the orchestra as possible, and work on papers he had brought along in a brief case.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Vocabulary lists containing orchestra
Music - Introductory
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Music - Middle School
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Theater - Introductory
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