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orchestral

[awr-kes-truhl] / ɔrˈkɛs trəl /


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A sans-serif font plays over the car’s odyssey through the Manhattan streets, shot on gorgeously grainy 16mm film and scored to the enveloping orchestral music of Gustav Holst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The brief orchestral passage that ends “Send in the Clowns” is borrowed from Stravinsky’s “Petrushka.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Taking a break from studio sessions and an orchestral tour to celebrate the song and the story behind it with a benefit concert at Largo, his Los Angeles “home base,” made sense to Bird.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Monty Norman's surf guitar riff and John Barry's sweeping orchestral scores spawned an entire genre of spy music – full of minor key suspense and piercing stabs of trumpet.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

It subsequently had to be reconstructed from the orchestral parts.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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