(Smaller orchestras—those with about 25 people—are often called chamber orchestras). As a noun, the word philharmonic can refer to a symphony orchestra or to the organization that sponsors it (sometimes called a philharmonic society, in which philharmonic is used as an adjective).
Orchestration Rates The American Federation of Musicians Union sets the rates from time to time, which come in around $26 to $65 per page for orchestration. Orchestrators with a proven track record earn the best rates.
Orchestra generally refers to any ensemble with sections of bowed string instruments. ... Band, outside the idiom of folk and pop music, generally refers to an ensemble of wind instruments plus percussion section, with or without a string bass.
Adella Prentiss Hughes
A baton is a stick that is used by conductors primarily to enlarge and enhance the manual and bodily movements associated with directing an ensemble of musicians.
The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by music-aficionado Adella Prentiss Hughes, businessman John L. Severance, Father John Powers, music critic Archie Bell, and Russian-American violinist and conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, who would become the Orchestra's first music director.
Orchestras play a wide range of repertoire, including symphonies, opera and ballet overtures, concertos for solo instruments, and as pit ensembles for operas, ballets, and some types of musical theatre (e.g., Gilbert and Sullivan operettas).
That responsibility alone makes the Conductor/Music Director the most important person in any orchestra.
These characteristics ultimately divide instruments into four families: woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.
In an orchestra, the clarinet takes on both solo roles and the middle register of the woodwind part, while in music for wind instruments the clarinet assumes a leading role (along with the trumpet). Due to its warm timbre and all-action playing style, it is also used as a solo instrument in genres such as swing jazz.
Drama that is sung to orchestra accompaniment, usually a large-scale composition involving soloist, chorus, orchestra, costumes, and scenery.
Orchestras play a wide range of repertoire, including symphonies, opera and ballet overtures, concertos for solo instruments, and as pit ensembles for operas, ballets, and some types of musical theatre (e.g., Gilbert and Sullivan operettas).
Conducting a Symphony Orchestra. Stand straight with your feet shoulder-width apart while conducting. When you first get up on the conductor's podium, find your place in front of the stand, spread your feet so they're shoulder-width apart, and then relax your shoulders and body.
The seating in the pit is awesome. Its actually better for someone shorter than taller for knee room. You can definitely see the stage and event with the best view. ... Basically you should be able to see everything on the stage from the main floor - except someone really tall is in front of you.
These are the violin, the viola, the cello and the bass.
The first semblance of a modern orchestra came in the early 17th century when the Italian opera composer Claudio Monteverdi formally assigned specific instruments to perform his music.
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