Who are the best orchestra in the world?

Major orchestra salaries range by the orchestra from a little over $100,000 to a little over $150,000. Principals, the ranking member of each orchestra section, can make a great deal more, in some instances more than $400,000. And most major orchestras play for a season lasting only about nine- months a year.

How long is a typical concert? Concert lengths can vary somewhat, depending on what is being performed and how long each piece is, but are generally in the 2 hour range, including intermission.

Woodwinds: flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and related instruments. These players sit a few rows back from the conductor, in the center of the orchestra. Brass: trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas and similar instruments. These instruments are the loudest, so you'll see them at the back of the orchestra.

Someone writing in The New York Times would refer to the Big Five American orchestras: the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

A modern full-scale symphony orchestra consists of approximately one hundred permanent musicians, most often distributed as follows: 16–18 1st violins, 16 2nd violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, 8 double basses, 4 flutes (one with piccolo as a specialty), 4 oboes (one with English horn as a specialty), 4 clarinets (one with ...

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The main reason why an orchestra concert is a captivating musical experience is due to the impressive skills of the musicians themselves. Honed by years of practice and countless performances, orchestral musicians are some of the best and most dedicated musicians in the world.

The brass family members that are most commonly used in the orchestra include the trumpet, French horn, trombone, and the tuba.

The brass family usually sits across the back of the orchestra. The HORN is in the back row of the orchestra, behind the bassoons and clarinets. The horn is a very long brass tube wrapped around in a circle several times. If you unwound a horn's tubing, it would be twenty-two feet in length!

Answer: 1. A music which is very flexible, and it can be performed by one shamisen or by an entire orchestra of twenty musicians, of which ten are shamisen players, while other play flutes and drums.

An orchestrator takes a composer's musical sketch and turns it into a score for orchestra, ensemble, or choral group, assigning the instruments and voices according to the composer's intentions.

The laptop orchestra presents a challenging field of opportunity to both explore the appeals of making music in large numbers – people and their relationships are front and centre in this ensemble – and see what might be possible with new technologies.

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Conductor: The leader of the orchestra, who provides the beat by moving his/her arms, usually with a baton in one hand, to keep all members of the orchestra together and ensure that players come in at the correct time.

The word derives from the ancient Greek part of a stage where instruments and the chorus combined music and drama to create theater. 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.

There are usually 10 to 14 violas in an orchestra and they almost always play the harmony.

It's so hard to find work as a violinist, that usually the less talented people choose the viola, and as viola players they manage to find work playing or teaching the viola. Well, to be in a symphony orchestra, you have to be very good indeed, but to be a soloist, you really have to be absolutely brilliant.

The Sections of the Orchestra. The typical orchestra is divided into four groups of instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

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A person who conducts an orchestra can be called a Conductor or a Maestro and the stick which he waves is knows as the baton.

To arrange or score music for performance by an orchestra. To compose or arrange orchestral music for a dramatic performance.

The celesta is a musical instrument from the percussion family but it is often included in the keyboard section of an orchestra.