symphony orchestra

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Phil announcing it was all in with its transformative former music director and had created a new position of creative director in which he would rethink the role of the symphony orchestra in society.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

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

That same year, Life magazine quoted an unnamed member of a symphony orchestra griping that Sinatra actually had the temerity to tell them what tempos he wanted his arrangements played in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

When Bryant heard John’s piece for the very first time, emanating from a symphony orchestra, “Oh my God,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

Sitting with my feet on the soiled canvas I felt as though I had wandered into the percussion section of a symphony orchestra.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison