symphony orchestra

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As creative director, former music director Esa-Pekka Salonen will spend six weeks a season helping envision what a 21st century symphony orchestra might look like.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour put a symphony orchestra on stage alongside the actors in a savage satire which dramatised the plight of Soviet dissidents locked away in mental hospitals.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

To that end, Sinatra became the first major singer to regularly perform popular music in formal concert settings backed by a full symphony orchestra.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

For the intro, I wanted to create maybe a Stanley Kubrick movie soundscape, but of course I didn’t have a symphony orchestra or synthesizers or any of that kind of stuff.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

She would have a whole symphony orchestra and conduct all of her music herself.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers