Which two orchestral composers were most influenced by jazz?

While research has long suggested listening to an orchestra's performance of such well-known pieces as Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro may boost the audience's brain power – a hypothesis aptly named The Mozart Effect—Penn Medicine experts suggest those playing in the orchestra may derive the ...

A gathering of musicians in Frankfurt, Germany, broke the world record for largest orchestra. After a few visits to your local symphony orchestra (or philharmonic — they're all pretty much the same anyway), you may start to notice that the size may fluctuate between pieces.

Women were not allowed in Baroque orchestras. Ask students to speculate on the reasons for this rule.

Orchestras such as the Hallé and the Royal Philharmonic are funded by the Arts Council, which saw its budget slashed by just under 30% in George Osborne's the comprehensive spending review in October.

The Philharmonic Society of New York

Orchestra instruments are grouped into four main families: the string family, the woodwind family, the brass family, and the percussion family. Today, we will learn about the string and woodwind families.

The path to obtaining a job in an orchestra is somewhat straightforward. First, you nearly always have to attend a great music school, at least at the Master's degree level. ... Secondly, study with a teacher who either has experience playing in an orchestra OR has had students get placed in an orchestra. Más elementos…

Guitarists' interest in playing together as a group has also spawned the advent of guitar orchestras, which exist all over the world. Some of the most famous, guitar-only orchestras include The Barcelona Guitar Orchestra, the New York City Guitar Orchestra and the Cambridge Guitar Orchestra.

The strings are the largest family of instruments in the orchestra and they come in four sizes: the violin, which is the smallest, viola, cello, and the biggest, the double bass, sometimes called the contrabass.

This family of instruments can play louder than any other in the orchestra and can also be heard from far away. ... Like the woodwind family, brass players use their breath to produce sound, but instead of blowing into a reed, you vibrate your own lips by buzzing them against a metal cup-shaped mouthpiece.

Price of everything is due to supply and demand. Only instruments that cost millions of dollars are unique or extremely rare instruments that are in high demand.

Conductor, in music, a person who conducts an orchestra, chorus, opera company, ballet, or other musical group in the performance and interpretation of ensemble works.

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The path to obtaining a job in an orchestra is somewhat straightforward. First, you nearly always have to attend a great music school, at least at the Master's degree level. ... Secondly, study with a teacher who either has experience playing in an orchestra OR has had students get placed in an orchestra.

NBC Symphony, also called (1954–63) Symphony Of The Air, American orchestra created in 1937 by the National Broadcasting Company expressly for the internationally renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini.

Founding. In 1940, Steinberg had begun to work with conductors Dean Dixon and Everett Lee to establish the first fully integrated professional symphony orchestra in the U. S. The dream never materialized because of insufficient funds.

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