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symphony orchestra

NOUN
large 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

She has two children in the program, her 8-year-old son who was a Sprouts percussionist, and her 13-year-old daughter, Romina Sanchez, a cellist in the symphony orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 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

But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury



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