Especially because the government is really focused on promoting traditional Chinese culture now, so you can see Western-style orchestras and Chinese orchestras in schools at all levels.
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Yes, blinded auditions for orchestras saw the share of women in the top orchestras grow from 5 percent to 25 percent, but that was over the course of 40 years.
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That is the highest level of public support among the 21 biggest orchestras in the nation, which average 2.7 percent the year before, according to the League of American Orchestras.
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Orchestras were dominated by men in those days, from the podium on through the string, wind and brass sections, and most orchestras had only a handful of women in their ranks.
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The rising stock market may be helping orchestras secure some of these gifts, Jesse Rosen, the president and chief executive officer of the League of American Orchestras, said in a telephone interview.
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The League of American Orchestras held a major conference on the subject this month in Baltimore, reporting that only 1.8 percent of members of American orchestras are African-American and 2.5 percent Latino.
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He then cites data about orchestras to make the case that women ought to obscure their gender in their résumés: Professional orchestras in the 1970s were comprised of an average of 95% men.
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"Who is calling the shots?" he asked of major orchestras.
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That has made it difficult for orchestras to curb costs.
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Von Einem's oeuvre also includes commissions from four American orchestras.
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He worked with orchestras in Europe, Israel, Australia and Tokyo.
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Not all collaborations between museums and orchestras involve huge institutions.
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No major American orchestras have programmed her works this season.
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Many orchestras pass their batons from one conductor to another.
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METROPOLITAN An article in some editions last Sunday about efforts to improve diversity in the Westchester Philharmonic included an incorrect figure from the League of American Orchestras for the percentage of Latinos in American orchestras.
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" Mr Lebrecht agrees: "Longer-established Chinese orchestras have improved beyond recognition.
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Some orchestras institute blind auditions, often leading to more female musicians.
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"I get angry that these orchestras are stuck," Mr. Guérin said.
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Listen: Britain's Anna Meredith has written music for orchestras and choirs.
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His pieces were performed by leading orchestras, sometimes with Thomson conducting!
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Two different Met orchestras showed up during this Rossini-Wagner stretch.
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Like many orchestras, the Utah Symphony struggled during the Great Recession.
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And when they build the new halls, they build new orchestras.
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Connoisseurs love to talk about the distinct sounds of different orchestras.
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They've seen it with full orchestras and just a piano accompaniment.
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For years, orchestras have courted the visionary conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Many orchestras are recording their concerts in front of empty theaters.
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He is also an overseer of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras.
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One result: a tradition of foreign-born maestros leading U.S. orchestras.
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Opera and theater companies, ballet houses and orchestras are also participating.
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She also toured and appeared as a guest artist with orchestras.
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He will play with 60 piece orchestras and he will play alone.
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Today Germany has 130 publicly financed orchestras, more than any other country.
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As it stands, hearing protection for orchestras is still a developing technology.
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But Mr. McManus cautioned that orchestras vary in how they report pay.
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José Antonio Abreu (21945–22018), music educator and director of youth orchestras.
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He led it in guest appearances with orchestras in Pittsburgh and elsewhere.
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I t's an old singer's complaint: orchestras get paid but choruses don't.
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Yet despite these troubles, the amount orchestras pay their conductors is increasing.
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Perhaps Petrenko's greatest strength is the devotion that he elicits from orchestras.
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The Met musicians had never played any Ruggles, but few orchestras have.
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The foundation's program for symphony orchestras, established through an eighty-million-dollar gift, raised the standard of living for members of American ensembles, bestowed orchestras with permanent endowments, and forced them to develop robust new fund-raising mechanisms.
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And it faces challenges other orchestras do not: regular competition from the world's leading orchestras who come to play at Carnegie Hall, its old home, not to mention from the Metropolitan Opera, two ballet companies, and all of Broadway.
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That he was so playful over soaring orchestras still feels stunning and unique.
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It was about the Who being a band that did not use orchestras.
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Mr. Litton opened with the overture to Bernstein's "Candide," a favorite of orchestras.
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"Underneath thin skin, amongst saliva, organs, and bone, we are orchestras," Harvey writes.
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Orchestras combated gender bias in a similar way by switching to blind auditions.
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Producing performances like this could be tough on orchestras, and on Toscanini himself.
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How do you want to put your personal stamps on these storied orchestras?
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In the musical world, there is an effort to promote diversity in orchestras.
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And he still deals with orchestras, which can have upward of 150 musicians.
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The 2020-21 Great Performers series includes visiting orchestras, chamber ensembles and recitals.
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Orchestras under his direction rarely drowned out singers, even those with lighter voices.
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Women still make up less than half of most orchestras in Continental Europe.
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More realistically, there are two stages on which young conductors are welcomed: They are our largest and most prestigious orchestras, those included in Group A by the League of American Orchestras, an organization that advocates on behalf of its membership.
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"All of the orchestras I have played in, I have always been the only person of color for 35 years," she said, adding that many British orchestras go into minority and ethnic communities to perform and educate on classical music.
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Forty-nine years later, if you look at orchestras, they're filled with female performers.
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The government is setting up opera houses, concert halls and symphony orchestras at speed.
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He dragged into it, often kicking and screaming, great orchestras, audiences and even governments.
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They are looking for wonderful orchestras and great food, sustainable campuses and single rooms.
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Ms. Kopatchinskaja has performed with some of Europe's top orchestras, including the London Philharmonic.
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It is a rare bright spot at a gloomy fiscal moment for many orchestras.
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He noted that unlike most orchestras, Me2 doesn't have first, second or third positions.
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In the normal repertoire, most symphony orchestras never get to either of those things.
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Orchestras were first charged the new cargo fees at the end of last year.
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But I realized this was a freak situation; this is not how orchestras work.
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Sure, he also works with orchestras, but he's not bound by their traditional sound.
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Performances with some of the great American orchestras — in New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland — followed.
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And he said that fewer orchestras were now running deficits than during the recession.
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A handful of orchestras — in Louisville, Ky.; Honolulu; and Philadelphia — have filed for bankruptcy.
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Orchestras are doing amazing things here as well, but it's more of a struggle.
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On several releases he arranged music for orchestras, a challenge he found particularly rewarding.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC It's Leonard Bernstein's centenary, and orchestras worldwide are responding with saturation coverage.
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Most orchestras try to overlook their maestros' other gigs, as if they were infidelities.
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He was also the music director or principal conductor of a half-dozen orchestras.
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"We have a couple of good orchestras, but they're not the Vienna Phil," he admits.
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Their faces beam more prominently from programs and wall displays than at most other orchestras.
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But her pieces warrant more attention than they are receiving now—especially from major orchestras.
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I find I get asked that question a lot about classical music and symphony orchestras.
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Orchestras and opera companies must somehow try to replicate this intimate atmosphere in bigger halls.
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Delegations from the orchestras were able to visit elected officials and demonstrate their public-spiritedness.
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It didn't find a permanent home until big band jazz orchestras developed in the 20163s.
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There were jazz orchestras, ballet performances, drama groups, theater companies and even a Yiddish theater.
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"Look at the American orchestras; they are full of excellent Chinese musicians," Mr. Mehta said.
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He also conducted a number of other orchestras in Europe, the United States and Japan.
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They recorded the work in 1980, and Mr. O'Flynn played it numerous times with orchestras.
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Musicians in Baltimore already earn less than many of their peers at year-round orchestras.
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But major orchestras around the world, such as the Boston Symphony, severed ties with him.
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But orchestras, he added, must consider what audiences — especially young ones — want from a performance.
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He was also among the first country acts to perform in concert with symphony orchestras.
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For decades, directors relied on orchestras and big bands to provide a film's musical drama.
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His versions were full-blooded, with lush strings and reasonably large orchestras — and, purists alleged.
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But with the curtain, the proportion of female musicians in American orchestras started to rise.
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Dance companies, like orchestras and opera houses, must tend to an enormous repertory of classics.
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He then began a decade at the helm of orchestras in Krakow, Katowice and Warsaw.
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Symphony orchestras and performers playing Western musical instruments were showcased alongside the country's indigenous music.
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The government lavishes money on orchestras, which now number over 80, and new concert halls.
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Prominent German conductors of American symphony orchestras were dismissed from their posts and locked up.
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It's great that orchestras recognized a gender bias and created a policy to fix it.
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What he is suggesting isn't anything like the gender-blind audition process that orchestras implemented.
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Greathouse cites blind auditions for orchestras — which resulted in orchestras being more gender balanced, he says — as the reasoning for his suggestion, as well as data that shows that people are more likely to pay attention to someone who has a similar name as them.
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It's actually very impressive to see it walk around and talk and conduct orchestras and stuff!
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Since the announcement, a wonderful Internet trend has been backing Sanders' speeches with Zimmer's dramatic orchestras.
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Over the weekend a range of artists and orchestras performed 40-minute sets across four locations.
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But Ms. Alsop is the only woman leading one of America's two dozen big-budget orchestras.
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Such platforms were important in their own right, but these men formed attitudes, not just orchestras.
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At the same time, we both know that every week, great orchestras come to play here.
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The change is also hitting symphony orchestras, many of which were founded on the subscription model.
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I talked about symphony orchestras, which were the ones who pioneered this, and it actually worked.
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Mr. Salonen said that classical music is bungling what could be a selling point of orchestras.
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The new settlers established hospitals, banks and theaters; published newspapers; and founded ballet troupes and orchestras.
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It is a challenging time for classical music, with orchestras under pressure to shake things up.
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In an ideal world, American orchestras would take up these new editions and embrace Beach's work.
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"We traveled the world doing shows for kids, sometimes with Big Bird conducting orchestras," he recalled.
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The First Moog Quartet toured on its own and performed with orchestras in the early 1970s.
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Mr. Johnson provided burly but exacting playing to orchestras led by Charles Mingus and Gil Evans.
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Turns out there are still world-class orchestras that have yet to make it to Carnegie.
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He studied the violin, trumpet, piano and led choirs and orchestras in different cities throughout Brazil.
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Nearly 50 years later, the gender mix of most orchestras reflects that of the general population.
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Robert J. Flanagan, an emeritus professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business who wrote the 2012 book "The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras," said that the recent labor unrest showed that the challenges facing many orchestras had not disappeared with the end of the Great Recession.
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Since then she has performed and recorded with some of the world's most acclaimed conductors and orchestras.
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Nowadays historically informed orchestras are no longer regarded as an experimental oddity coming out of left field.
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Critic's Notebook PHILADELPHIA — Diversity is suddenly the watchword at American symphony orchestras, and it is high time.
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Most of these cities lack regular concert seasons and the funding to bring in distinguished foreign orchestras.
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Mr. Harnoncourt worked regularly with many of Europe's major orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic.
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His influence spread further through the proliferation of youth orchestras in underserved communities inspired by El Sistema.
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Plenty of orchestras record, after all, and most record in the same way they do in Pittsburgh.
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He is a musical genius and has created one of the greatest opera orchestras in the world.
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Local chapters of the musicians union are now in the middle of two cases at top orchestras.
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His music is well represented by the Philharmonic, by way of the composer residency, and visiting orchestras.
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Mr. Rattle, 63, helped turn a venerable ensemble into one of the world's most forward-thinking orchestras.
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These approaches are much more part of the fabric of orchestras as institutions today — because of Bernstein.
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The groom, 30, a concert pianist, has performed with several orchestras mainly in Europe and United States.
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Then, for Mahler's Seventh Symphony, musicians from orchestras around the world were invited to join the band.
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LOS ANGELES — American orchestras are supposed to be in crisis, fighting for economic survival and cultural relevance.
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Few orchestras could better render the score's architecture so clear, the dense layers of sound so balanced.
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Orchestras and museums are stepping up their partnerships, hoping to attract new audiences both young and old.
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They chose the musicians themselves; they appointed their conductor—they were far more independent than American orchestras.
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I'm amazed by all the offers I'm getting to do concerts, with different orchestras around the world.
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The question of how effectively orchestras can attract philanthropic support is increasingly the key to their survival.
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The numerous recordings Mr. Jansons made with various orchestras also sometimes showed a taste for underappreciated works.
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Mr. Jansons often noted that each of the many orchestras he conducted had different strengths and sounds.
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The first use of orchestras in Nazi concentration camps was in the summer of 1942, Brauer wrote.
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Many orchestras have adopted "blind auditions," in which hiring committees can hear but not see the applicant.
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Mr. Harding is a regular on the podiums of Europe's leading orchestras, including in Vienna and Berlin.
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While orchestras have always required subsidies — whether from monarchs, the church, governments or patrons — the balance has shifted to the point where they generally get more revenue from donations than from selling tickets, according to a report released Tuesday by the League of American Orchestras, an industry association.
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Chinese orchestras and opera companies now tour the Far East, too—previously the domain of touring Western outfits.
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I actually think that when orchestras have drum kits in the middle, it tends to be a racket.
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Behind them, an entire generation of Italian conductors is making a mark at leading orchestras and opera houses.
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The new record startled the music world, especially at a moment that many orchestras are under fiscal pressure.
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In addition to the prize money, Ms. Kishima will also receive performance contracts with several international symphony orchestras.
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Some orchestras use risers — or tiered platforms — that elevate the players in the back rows for better visibility.
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"The development of pops as a separate thing actually hurt orchestras," Mr. Fogel said in a telephone interview.
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"We are so pleased," said Heather Noonan, the vice president for advocacy at the League of American Orchestras.
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At the same time other orchestras, like the San Francisco Symphony, have agreed to record-setting pay deals.
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DAVID ALLEN NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT: THE COMPLETE SONY RECORDINGS Various orchestras; Sony Classical; 29.953 CDs, 3 DVDs, $136.63; amazon.
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PLENTY of orchestras offer soundtrack karaoke these days, playing the scores of films live as they are screened.
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The programs of American orchestras have remained overwhelmingly tilted toward works of the past, mostly the distant past.
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Many Parisot students have gone on to solo careers and to prominent positions in ensembles, orchestras and conservatories.
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There is no major commissioning project, such as you might see from other orchestras; no nationally televised gala.
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American orchestras planning yet another run-through of Beethoven's Seventh might instead take a crack as Shapero's masterpiece.
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The survivors wander around an empty city, usually London, regretting the lost world of restaurants and symphony orchestras.
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But the partnerships are growing today among institutions of all sizes, as museums and orchestras seek new audiences.
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The music of Beethoven will be inescapable this year, as orchestras around the world celebrate his 21928th birthday.
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How many orchestras would come up with a Beethoven tribute concert without any works by Beethoven in it?
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But two American conductors have been innovators for years, and both are leading their orchestras at Carnegie Hall.
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Many orchestras have dealt with recent fiscal pressures by trying to cut expenses, often leading to labor strife.
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The Concertgebouw is one of the great orchestras in the world, and used to being wooed by stars.
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A technological marvel of its age, the ship entered service in 1952 and sailed with three orchestras on board.
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Some symphony orchestras still play a fraction above that, but most musicians have, at least tacitly, agreed to conform.
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But the promise of electronic music for me was that I could be independent, and not depend on orchestras.
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Many American orchestras have turned to China in recent years as ticket sales in the United States have slowed.
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Lu started her professional career in orchestras, and has even once played the cello for Florence and The Machine.
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After graduating, he conducted multiple East German orchestras and was eventually given a prestigious role leading the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
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Until last month, orchestras had not been held liable for injuries players sustained when declining to use protective equipment.
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The lack of diversity in American orchestras is an issue of long standing, but it has gained fresh currency.
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And thanks to Finland's abundance of good orchestras, Sibelius Academy conducting students get professional opportunities even before they graduate.
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Like all music directors, he has had to pick his battles with the mostly entrenched administrations of American orchestras.
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"We hope to hear from people who studied with him, musicians who performed with him in orchestras," Urquhart said.
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Facing the temple is a four-story theater with soaring eaves and an outdoor performance terrace for local orchestras.
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Although there are several period-instrument orchestras in France, Insula is largely alone in embarking on experimental, multidisciplinary projects.
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Steeped in the blues, he also created works for chamber ensembles and orchestras, sometimes but not always including improvisation.
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Choi Moon-soon, governor for the Games' host province, said the two countries' orchestras may hold a joint concert.
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I was curious about how similarly, or differently, these two orchestras might come across under Mr. Nezét-Séguin's direction.
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In 1947, MCA hired Mr. Gregory for its New York office, to book tours for orchestras and prominent entertainers.
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His idea is to bring different leading orchestras and conductors each year to explore repertoire in which they specialize.
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European groups are often largely publicly funded, unlike American orchestras, which typically demand their conductors also be fund-raisers.
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But today even conservatory orchestras can play the score solidly, if not as commandingly as this impressive ensemble did.
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Nonprofit theaters, museums and orchestras have made a herculean grassroots effort engaging their subscribers and donors to help #SavetheNEA.
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He went on to lead China's best orchestras, and now teaches at Bard College Conservatory of Music in America.
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Basically every problem that could possibly arise in conducting an orchestra comes up at some point with youth orchestras.
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"Last year, that committee recommended a modest but significant increase," said Heather Noonan of the League of American Orchestras.
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The play does, for example, mash together Bollywood actors, Ukrainian ballerinas, and Austrian orchestras, for your cacaphonic viewing pleasure.
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During that time, women have made much greater strides as players, in part because of blind auditions: While it was rare to see women in orchestras just over half a century ago, they made up 47.4 percent of orchestra musicians in the 2013-14 season, according to the League of American Orchestras.
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When, for example, orchestras started selecting their performers "blindly" (everyone auditioned behind a screen), the gender split hit 50-50.
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I would argue that orchestras everywhere have been engaged for too long in what feels like a continuous Vienna festival.
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Exploring the complexity of sound and movement created by simple elements, Swiss artist Zimoun creates organic orchestras of rustling noises.
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They chipped and whined through Crown Heights and Flatbush to the sounds of steel pan orchestras rolling on parade floats.
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According to the German foreign office, in recent years numerous outstanding German orchestras, operas and ballet companies have toured China.
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Before founding her music production company, Derke, a flutist, performed with distinguished orchestras like the Turksoy Symphony Orchestra in Istanbul.
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Ms. Green, 34, is the major gifts officer focused on fund-raising for the League of American Orchestras in Manhattan.
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An earlier version of this article misquoted Heather Noonan, the vice president for advocacy at the League of American Orchestras.
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Other orchestras, which act in their cities as important civic institutions and provide educational services, receive significant public support, too.
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From that, the network expanded to 300 choirs and orchestras that received awards from the Royal Swedish Academy and UNESCO.
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But as he discovered when he auditioned for the Indianapolis Symphony in the 1950s, few orchestras were open to him.
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A pop band with an orchestra may sound weird, but the band has recorded with full orchestras since the 1980s.
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Under his baton, the ensemble secured its place among, and helped redefine the role and repertory of, America's top orchestras.
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Mr. Donner plays about a third of the 150 balls, galas and soirees his orchestras are hired for each year.
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Orchestras are among the least racially diverse institutions in the country, with African-Americans accounting for 1.8 percent of players.
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In Los Angeles, Dudamel conducts one of the best-paid, most critically acclaimed and most financially stable orchestras in America.
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Orchestras in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and even in Washington are led by conductors from Austria, France, Venezuela and Italy.
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The Berlin Philharmonic is considered one of the most virtuosic orchestras in the world — and one of the most independent.
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Here's how he transformed one of Europe's most venerable ensembles into one of the 21st century's most forward-thinking orchestras.
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They are the orchestras from Helsinki's Sibelius Academy, not the Siblius Academy; and the Juilliard School, not the Juliard School.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen leads this program from two young orchestras, a celebratory affair to mark the centenary of Finnish independence.
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These changes have forced orchestras to change everything from how they organize their staffs to how they define their missions.
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Asked why, he noted that he rarely appears as a guest conductor, and then generally only with orchestras he knows.
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In these days of changing concertgoing habits, many orchestras find it increasingly important to connect with audiences outside their halls.
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A busy performing and recording career followed, as he became a favored soloist with major orchestras and at prestigious festivals.
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"In some big orchestras, the players may also have a say, and some may be more conservative," Ms. Yip said.
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One classic study of the impact of removing any potential gender bias in the hiring process comes from symphony orchestras.
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Twenty-first-century singers, like 21st-century instrumentalists and orchestras, are rightly expected to range widely as well as deeply.
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The sound beneath them has changed, too, shifting toward noisier atmospherics with ominous synths, frantic piano lines and disembodied orchestras.
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I've worked with and played with orchestras before—we've done a version of Tommy, which was done with the London Symphony.
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The piece she wrote, "Froms," performed simultaneously by five orchestras, was, like many things Ms. Meredith has composed since, swaggeringly ambitious.
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In a study on symphony orchestras, blinding of musician auditions increased the probability that a woman would advance by 50 percent.
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And increasingly, there are tours celebrating the music of video games like Pokemon, where full orchestras play the tracks out live.
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He took an interest in music from an early age, teaching himself piano and becoming enraptured by radio broadcasts of orchestras.
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The musical ear, gained from over a decade of playing in bands and orchestras, allowed me to listen to the jam.
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The council's meetings follow two conferences, convened this spring, at which those who work in the arts discussed increasing orchestras' diversity.
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Tickets are cheaper than at other orchestras; my press seat, on the left orchestra aisle, would have cost twenty-five dollars.
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We hear relatively little about Leonard Bernstein as a composer or as a working musician, studying scores, rehearsing orchestras and singers.
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The Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall offers hundreds of videos of performances by one of the world's great orchestras, and Medici.
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Music directors of major orchestras should, of course, have expertise in standard repertory and, equally important, demonstrate involvement with new music.
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For more than a decade, Mr. Postilio lived by the Great American Songbook, singing on cruise ships and with symphony orchestras.
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Francois Pasquier, who launched the event in Paris in 1988, says more than two dozen orchestras are set to entertain guests.
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In recent decades, prominent conductors have tended to emerge from specialized conducting courses and begin their careers working with symphony orchestras.
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While defined-benefit pensions have grown rarer in the private sector, they are still the norm among the nation's leading orchestras.
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Mr. Boulez was in conflict with the French Ministry of Culture and refusing to conduct any orchestras in his native France.
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Lasting just from 2001 to 2009, the studio was built for and mostly used by orchestras, Broadway cast recordings and commercials.
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As we embark on a new season of concerts, a look at our leading orchestras reveals a situation similar to 1943.
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They also performed in division orchestras, like the 99813th Army Band, which played for special events and to boost troop morale.
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Their timbres, particularly in the winds and brasses, are distinct, blending less smoothly than in orchestras today yet affording stereoscopic clarity.
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Another of the world's top orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic, first admitted a woman in 1982, a century after it was founded.
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An August 16 survey by two University College London academics showed that in Continental orchestras, 36.6 percent of members were women.
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In 21984, Gramophone, the classical music magazine, asked a panel of music critics to rank the best orchestras in the world.
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The cooperation with (Concerto Budapest) and the exchange between the musicians of the two orchestras makes it a very strong project.
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Some nights, he, my mother, and I listened to the shortwave signal of a Guatemalan radio station that broadcast marimba orchestras.
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He continued to receive commissions from some of the largest American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic.
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He continued to receive commissions from some of the largest American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic.
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In the 2400s, symphony orchestras were still made up almost exclusively of white men — directors claimed they were the only ones qualified.
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But it is in bringing orchestras, opera performances and top individual performers to the West that China is showing its real clout.
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For listeners who have grown up hearing their Beethoven played by regular modern symphony orchestras, our performances will present some striking differences.
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Orchestras from Detroit to Atlanta to Philadelphia have been threatened with extinction in recent years and have dragged themselves back to life.
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Good jazz music requires the architectural compactness of a jazz club, not the airiness of a huge auditorium designed for symphony orchestras.
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Fortunately for the reader, Ozawa's humility extends to admitting professional failures, and in these we learn more about where orchestras go wrong.
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He started to compose more music for traditional orchestras—though it was rarely straightforward—while pushing his guitar orchestra to its extremes.
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"This is a wonderful honor and an extraordinary showcase for YOLA, as well as a tribute to youth orchestras worldwide," said Dudamel.
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Orchestras perform in the 4,000-seat Sala Palatului hall which was built in 1960 for Communist Party meetings and has poor acoustics.
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Most strikingly, the Detroit offers free Webcasts of its concerts—an initiative that seems obvious but that few other orchestras have tried.
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"The states of mind are very direct," said the violinist Michael Barenboim, who performs the work with three different orchestras this season.
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I used to play in band in grade school and high school so I played with orchestras, jazz bands, and marching bands.
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Medulla saw her taking apart organic sounds, resampling and twisting sounds to make orchestras and staticky instruments out of the human voice.
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Game after game, year after year, we listen to the same sheet music, performed by different orchestras and led by different conductors.
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It is a classic example of what all composers and orchestras go through when trying to bring a new work to performance.
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There are orchestras that play with more precision: Here and there an entrance was frayed, an ornament rendered with subtly smudged contours.
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The orchestra's management noted that a number of large orchestras have cut weeks and said that they continued to uphold high standards.
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For eight years, Mr. Gilbert has worked diligently and creatively to puncture the mystique that still surrounds symphony orchestras and their conductors.
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"With orchestras you have a much bigger history of sponsorship being mainstream, and it rests more on that funding model," he said.
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"With the orchestras, there are a huge number of firsts," Clive Gillinson, the hall's executive and artistic director, said in an interview.
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Kelli O'Hara, a leading lady of Broadway, and Leif Ove Andsnes, a superb pianist, both surprised me during solo appearances with orchestras.
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Orchestras arrive with retinues of fans, who, armed with color-coded bandannas, form good-natured cheer squads at their hometown ensembles' performances.
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BEIJING — Sumi Jo, a Grammy Award-winning South Korean soprano, had been scheduled to perform alongside three top orchestras in mainland China.
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When it opened last month in New York, officials from both orchestras chuckled over the Viennese stamp on a New York artifact.
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One of my major concerns in life — this is a bad non sequitur, but not really — is the survival of the orchestras.
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I think I just wasn't ready for how some of the big U.S. orchestras worked, and how they would relate to me.
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I think the challenge is creating a sound, and with some orchestras it's simply getting them into the right frame of mind.
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He set out to bring them to others by founding orchestras in which all the performers have been affected by mental illness.
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When a young Mr. Previn conducted symphony orchestras, he was known to show the verve and boyish enthusiasm of a pop star.
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He also began to appear more widely again as a conductor, with orchestras in the United States (Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago) and Europe.
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Yet there clearly is an efficient system in place at the Sibelius Academy; its graduates are consistently appointed to positions with prestigious orchestras.
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The League of American Orchestras finally awoke to the challenge in June, devoting much of its annual conference to the topic of diversity.
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Back in the first half of the 20th century, Irish music was dominated either by traditional music or big band orchestras and balladeers.
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On the floor, though, dueling orchestras turn the game of basketball into a series of complex, crafty sequences that vaguely approximate fine art.
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"There's a different attitude toward the high arts in Harbin," said Jindong Cai, a Stanford professor and frequent guest conductor with Chinese orchestras.
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"I think orchestras are fundamentally local businesses," said Thomas W. Morris, who has led both the Cleveland Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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At the end of the day orchestras are about making music, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic has some big plans for next season.
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Two of the four shows I saw over the weekend were proscenium productions with orchestras in the pit: opera as you imagine it.
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El Sistema grew from a gathering of 11 young musicians to a youth orchestra to a nationwide system of youth orchestras and choirs.
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Mr. O'Flynn was comfortable in practically any musical world, playing alongside rock and country stars, in front of orchestras and on his own.
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Going part-time would effectively dislodge the ensemble from the top tier of American orchestras, which have year-round contracts for their musicians.
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The strike attracted the attention of orchestras nationwide, which have been under pressure to curb expenses, especially during contract negotiations with their unions.
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The percent of female musicians in the five highest-ranked orchestras in the nation increased by 15 percent over a 23-year period.
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It was there he met Caroline Whiddon, who had been the chairwoman of the Youth Orchestra Division of the League of American Orchestras.
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Her widest-reaching project, the 2004 symphonic poem "Made in America," has been performed by more than 65 orchestras in all 50 states.
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"If my friends and I decide today that there will be no orchestras, there won't be in 22018 years," he said in 21967.
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To find American music directors at larger orchestras, you must look to, among other locations, San Francisco, Atlanta and, until recently, St. Louis.
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Chatter about the future of classical music tends to focus on major orchestras and opera companies, and how they can entice new audiences.
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The New York Philharmonic, alone among the nation's 20 largest orchestras, does not allow female musicians to wear pants for formal evening concerts.
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By most accounts, the program succeeded — but when the money ran out, some orchestras found it difficult to maintain their better-paid ensembles.
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In 2008, he faced no competition from major orchestras in vying to give the American premiere of a piece by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.
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Since its "premiere" in December, it has been making the rounds of world orchestras and arrived at the New York Philharmonic on Thursday.
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She also sang from the mezzo repertoire with leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the London, Boston, Cleveland and Detroit symphonies.
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From symphony orchestras to chamber concerts, instrumentalists are asserting their physical, individual presences in ways that are by turns whimsical, heartbreaking or strange.
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Night after night, the arena fills with "promenaders," standing ticketholders who pay 903 pounds to see the orchestras, chamber ensembles, choirs and soloists.
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Referred to as "the majors," the group includes theaters, orchestras and ballet and opera companies that have relied on government money for years.
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DANIEL WAKIN: I took up the clarinet in around fourth grade, studied privately and have played in chamber groups and orchestras ever since.
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"Streaming is really about access and visibility," said Peter Maniura, project director for the classical archive and orchestras digital strategy at BBC Music.
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Though the Beatles were not the only group writing while high, messing about with tape decks and hiring orchestras, they were the most conspicuous.
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In May, it beat more prominent orchestras to be the first American ensemble to visit Cuba since the thaw in relations with that country.
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The government hand-picked musicians who formed core "national" orchestras, and they were tasked with training the young musicians of the 35 "regional" groups.
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Orchestras can play more quietly and in many cases should, but hearing loss is a foreseeable and unavoidable hazard of a life in music.
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Conductors at orchestras everywhere are under institutional pressure to make these gala programs, which also function as fund-raisers for patrons, light and festive.
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Though his works are seldom played by American orchestras, Martucci (1856-1909) was a rarity among Italian composers in having never written an opera.
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The Cleveland Orchestra, which is routinely ranked at or near the top of American orchestras, promised to conduct an independent investigation of Mr. Preucil.
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Mr. Lang's return, in front of thousands of people at Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music Shed, was being watched by orchestras and music industry insiders everywhere.
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And under his leadership, San Francisco opened a small nightclub-like space for unconventional programming called SoundBox that is the envy of other orchestras.
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She has appeared for years at major halls and with leading orchestras in Europe, and has made acclaimed recordings on the Warner Classics label.
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After Mozart's death, the work was completed by his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr, whose edition was long the standard for orchestras around the world.
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The "Licht" score includes sections scored for children's and adult choruses, synthesizers, hundreds of brass players, orchestras, solo singers and, of course, the helicopters.
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"We're losing musicians to better-paying orchestras," Greg Mulligan, a violinist who is one of the two chairmen of the orchestra's negotiating committee, said.
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According to the League of American Orchestras, 2013 was the first year that revenue from single-ticket buyers and group sales surpassed subscription income.
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"We have some of the best orchestras, musicians and conductors in the world, and that has nothing to do with the E.U.," he said.
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OPINION An Op-Ed article on Saturday about the lack of American conductors at major orchestras misstated the origin of the Philadelphia Orchestra's leader.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the nationalities of six conductors singled out in April for promotion by the League of American Orchestras.
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And they're required to: The Philharmonic, alone among the nation's 20 largest orchestras, does not allow women to wear pants for formal evening concerts.
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This season includes his debuts with orchestras in Toronto, Houston, Dallas and Minnesota, the Canadian Opera Company, and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
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New Yorkers, blessed with easy access to Carnegie Hall, have long been able to keep at least fitful track of Europe's finest symphony orchestras.
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Orchestras and other classical-music institutions must cultivate the next generation of loyal patrons if they are to remain culturally relevant and financially stable.
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The Chinese conductor Long Yu, who holds a leadership position in all three of the orchestras, did not respond to a call for comment.
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Critic's Pick The subscription-series format long commonplace at American orchestras, with a weekly offering of standard repertory, is looking a little, well, standard.
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Museums in at least 27 states, along with at least 19 orchestras, offered free admission to federal workers who have unpaid time on their hands.
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In 28, Freeman was making just enough money to pay his bills playing the clarinet at part-time gigs with regional orchestras throughout Northern California.
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In its glory days in the 413s, the ship carried everyone from royalty to immigrants across the Atlantic Ocean, accompanied by three on-board orchestras.
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The Finnish conductor John Storgards, 52, thrived at the Helsinki Philharmonic for seven seasons and has long appeared to acclaim with major orchestras in Europe.
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While women have made inroads at many orchestras as players, they have continued to face barriers when it comes to conducting assignments and, especially, directorships.
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Some orchestras devoted to pops, including the New York Pops and Cincinnati Pops, continue to mix light classics with American songbook standards and film music.
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The orchestra has started to spin off touring editions of films from its Art of the Score series, renting the production elements to other orchestras.
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Many orchestras have been buffeted in recent years by budget cuts, strikes and lockouts, while some larger ensembles have agreed to record-setting compensation deals.
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The strike was the biggest shock wave yet in a tumultuous autumn for symphony orchestras, at a time when many are grappling with fiscal challenges.
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"Orchestras won't have any excuse not to hire visually impaired musicians because the technology's right there allowing them to be an integral part," he added.
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The top orchestras in New York and Hong Kong moved this year to lock the highly sought Dutch conductor into contracts that run until 22019.
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Like many other orchestras, the Philharmonic has been grappling with questions of how to broaden the repertoire and reach new audiences while facing fiscal pressures.
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That has put pressure on orchestras to raise more money from donors — but also to try to cut expenses, leading to tensions with their unions.
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These have been difficult times for many American orchestras, which have grown ever more reliant on donations and the investment income from their endowment funds.
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On this set, Ms. Laubrock shows how thoroughly she has absorbed some of his lessons, by writing two works for orchestras stocked with talented improvisers.
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This initiative, which still exists, is known formally as the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela, but no one calls it that.
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He has another directorship in Moscow, conducts all over Europe and is the only conductor on this list to have significant experience with American orchestras.
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Presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York, the program will showcase youth choirs from around the world, as well as the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras.
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In recent years, 80 percent of the clarinet positions in North American orchestras were filled by Mr. Gilad's students, the professor testified in court documents.
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But she has become a go-to leader for modern orchestras making once- or twice-a-year forays into the early 18th century and thereabouts.
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And marquee orchestras have not been immune to serious pressures: The New York Philharmonic has run deficits every season since 2001-2, orchestra officials said.
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On recordings, she was often backed by two of France's jazziest orchestras, led by Wal-Berg, the stage name of Voldemar Rosenberg, and Raymond Legrand.
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" The party's 2016 platform for the state of Saxony-Anhalt called for "museums, orchestras and theaters" to "promote a positive relationship to their own homeland.
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He is sought by leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic, which he will conduct for two weeks beginning Wednesday evening.
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But his performance turned out to be a triumph, propelling his international career and leading to appearances with the world's greatest opera houses and orchestras.
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Gustavo Dudamel brings the one of most important orchestras in the world to Lincoln Center, though with programs that do not entirely deserve that reputation.
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J.R.O. 'DISCUSSIONS' (Wide Hive) Roscoe Mitchell has long been interested in teaching orchestras how to improvise, and this album reveals the fruits of his labor.
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Previn was a conductor of major orchestras in Europe and America including the London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and others.
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Not to be outdone, the evening's Millennial Choirs and Orchestras performance at Carnegie Hall also picked up and worked some musical magic on the street outside.
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Most orchestras in the 1970s tended to play Beethoven in a style that was pretty much identical to that in which they played Wagner or Strauss.
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She also plays with orchestras, chamber groups and conducts solo recitals on stage in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Gardens, Lincoln Center and more.
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The National Symphony does not always live up to its name: It is not generally considered to be among the very first rank of American orchestras.
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So he did not send the boys home, but told them he was going to turn them into one of the best orchestras in the world.
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Yet he still spends much of the year travelling to orchestras across America, revisiting cities where he received early attention: San Diego, Milwaukee, Madison, Fort Worth.
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"Some of my friends in Europe, or even in New York, are still quite snobby and don't know how really good these orchestras are," he said.
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The family eventually returned to America and settled in an émigré enclave in Los Angeles where Judy's mother, a classical musician, played in film studio orchestras.
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Meanwhile, a 2014-15 survey of leading US orchestras found only 1.8 percent of the total pieces performed during the concert season were penned by women.
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In addition to his long tenure at Wesleyan University, Alvin Lucier deepened his investigation of hallucinatory resonances by writing for orchestras and, most recently, electric guitarists.
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Just as ball teams no longer build stadiums for World Series crowds, most orchestras no longer build halls that only visiting superstars can hope to pack.
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In the two years before his injury, Mr. Lang played 10 opening galas with major American orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony.
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There are a lot of great, ambitious orchestras in the world; I don't know another that would have gone for what the Clevelanders did this week.
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After Mr. Dudamel denounced the government's violent crackdowns on street protests last year, the government canceled two tours of Venezuelan orchestras he had planned to lead.
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His productions were known for dispensing with props, costumes, scenery, orchestras and other conventions to spotlight the talent of stars and exploit the imagination of audiences.
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He denied the accusations, but nevertheless severed ties with many orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, where he was artistic director and principal conductor.
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The issue of sexual misconduct needs to be discussed more in classical music, he added, and not just in orchestras, but also in universities and academies.
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One of the best orchestras in the world brings a pair of avowedly Hungarian programs to New York, under the ceaselessly interesting baton of Ivan Fischer.
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A longtime passionate advocate has been Peter Kermani, a former chairman of what is now the League of American Orchestras and the founder of Albany Records.
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In America, while other artistic disciplines rightly take pride in our leading practitioners, our major orchestras are unique in favoring conductors of Continental or Asian lineage.
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It's not unusual for contemporary music to appear in New York's churches, where chamber groups and orchestras often present very secular programs of avant-garde composition.
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One example she cited is the use of "blind auditions" by major orchestras, where they reduced gender bias by having auditioners play from behind a curtain.
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" Read more " Orchestras are among America's least racially diverse institutions, with African-Americans accounting for only 1.8 percent of players, according to a 2014 industry study.
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It is a self-contained universe of white, simultaneously industrial and natural, where men with finger-nubs stand on scenic cliffs conducting tractors like symphony orchestras.
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Art Review Let's say you were a composer, and you wrote a symphony that received universal praise, deep academic study, performances by the most prestigious orchestras.
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Ms. Nwanoku has played with some of Europe's leading chamber orchestras and was a founding member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London.
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Perhaps the politicians in attendance even read the editorial in the festival's program, which laid out impressive statistics on the diverse contributions made by American orchestras.
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He started off with the successful alternative rock band The Ben Folds Five but later segued into country, a cappella, piano concertos and full symphony orchestras.
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And the ambitious monthlong Hong Kong Arts Festival, which would have assembled leading orchestras, opera companies, soloists and dance companies from all over the world, was canceled.
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Pure growth, the economist Robert J. Flanagan warns in his 2012 book "The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras: Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges," is not often enough.
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Last year NEA funding supported arts programs in every county in the state, including music education camps, a bluegrass festival, films, orchestras, plays and even a mural.
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Munich plays host not only to one of the best opera houses in the world, but also to one of the best orchestras: the Bavarian Radio Symphony.
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Macho shock and awe can easily be found elsewhere in the culture: too many orchestras these days bludgeon the ears with an approximation of Dolby cineplex sound.
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Some music lovers have mixed feelings about the growing trend of cinema karaoke, in which great orchestras play the soundtracks of films live as they are screened.
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" Jesse Rosen, the president of the League of American Orchestras, said ensembles are saying, in effect: "Yes, we want to play a role in generating new music.
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It is one of the most famous pieces of American music — but for 70 years orchestras may have been playing one of its best-known effects wrong.
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His death was announced by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, one of the world's most acclaimed chamber orchestras, which Mr. Marriner founded in 21985.
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One challenge the New Jersey Symphony faces is that it is a very good orchestra that can be overshadowed by the world-famous orchestras that play nearby.
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Perhaps orchestras should consider anchoring their music directors' packages to a sane multiple of their players' base pay: "Ten times what the musicians make," Mr. Schwarz said.
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And his insecurity about his compositions, which seemed genuine, was understandable: They were beaten up by critics, ignored by most orchestras and never really embraced by audiences.
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Jesse Rosen, the president of the League of American Orchestras, said that the trouble in Baltimore was especially dispiriting given how forward-looking the ensemble has been.
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Yet Boulez mellowed over time, and became a revered figure at leading opera houses and orchestras, working within the system to improve it rather than exploding it.
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The album opens with his first completed orchestra score, the ebullient and impish Toccata Concertante (1947), a piece that could become a surefire concert opener for orchestras.
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Mr. Williams found time to record more than a dozen albums of his own and write 30 works for combinations of orchestras, big bands and jazz soloists.
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To the Editor: Tech companies could easily and quickly solve their gender-parity problems by taking the hiring approach used by many major orchestras in this country.
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Approaching 683, Ms. Lack felt her career had hit a wall: Critics had begun writing that her violin was not powerful enough for playing with big orchestras.
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It consists of an orchestra, a choir and a dance ensemble, and is one of the two Russian orchestras allowed to use the title Red Army Choir.
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"We invest in museums for art and orchestras and music, but food we think of as nutrition or biological," said Mitchell Davis, the organization's chief strategy officer.
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He was a resident conductor for the Newport Symphony in Oregon and guest conducted dozens of orchestras around the country, the Newport Symphony said in a statement.
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For American music lovers, the resolution of the Budapest ensemble's visa issue allowed them to hear one of the most admired, and unusual, orchestras of the day.
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The musicians were playing in the park as part of Shift, a new weeklong festival of American orchestras presented by Washington Performing Arts and the Kennedy Center.
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He was a highly decorated musical director for the Metropolitan Opera for 40 years and held leadership positions in orchestras and at festivals throughout the music world.
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La Verdi, the musical institution behind the choir, was formed in 1993 by a deep-pocketed consortium of Milanese patrons and businesspeople after two Milanese orchestras folded.
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He sometimes said that he preferred being a guest conductor to be being a music director, seeing his relationships with orchestras more as love affairs than commitments.
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Ms. Rowe and the orchestra pledged to build on the spirit behind practices like blind auditions, which have helped markedly increase the percentage of women in orchestras.
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She has played with top orchestras, even under the baton of the conductor Zubin Mehta, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Madison Square Garden.
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SHEA: Using absolutely every kind of music-making instrument or sound we could find, from orchestras to synthesizers to weird instruments that are from around the world.
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And he worked with the world's most prestigious orchestras, as the principal conductor of La Scala in Milan and as a conductor at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany.
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From there, passion sprung forth and he began arranging pieces for orchestras and marching bands, eventually enrolling in a composition program at Thailand's Mahidol University College of Music.
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We recorded all the music live in Venice Beach in this giant old brick building where they used to do scores for movies, they'd pack orchestras in there.
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Correction (April 18th): The headline on this article initially mentioned "orchestras' duty of care", but this legally defined term was not an element of the case in question.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A conductor's baton has been created that allows the visually-impaired to follow its movements, opening up the potential for blind people to join more orchestras.
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If these days we insist on knowing the farm our restaurant chicken comes from, why shouldn't we know the doings of the private-equity firms supporting our orchestras?
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Most orchestras seem to generate raw power mainly through the brasses, but in this one the strings are no less crucial, playing tremolos and pizzicatos with incomparable energy.
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"The orchestras in these second-tier cities are very thirsty and looking for help," said Cai Jindong, a professor at Stanford and a frequent guest conductor in China.
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The old subscription model that orchestras relied on to fill seats is on the decline as audiences now prefer to make last-minute decisions about their leisure time.
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And events are all too rare for a composer who wrote no operas, and whom symphony orchestras have been shy about playing since the rise of period specialists.
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This time the featured orchestras, presenting both concerts and community events, will be the Fort Worth, Albany and Indianapolis symphonies, as well as Washington's own National Symphony Orchestra.
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It's not exactly surprising that major orchestras, whose Eurocentrism is in their DNA and whose programming remains centered on the European canon, still tend to hire European maestros.
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In recent years, the San Francisco, New World and National symphonies, and other orchestras, have offered their own nontraditional concerts, typically late-night ventures in alternative, clublike spaces.
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But as attendance has waned at many orchestras, some have begun to question if there is sufficient demand from ticket buyers to justify 13-week seasons — and contracts.
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Today, top-tier orchestras and performers play at the Philharmonie de Paris, a 2,400-seat concert hall in the working-class 19th Arrondissement, on the capital's northeastern rim.
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He is widely believed to be a contender for the bevy of prominent American orchestras now looking for their next conductor, including in Detroit, San Francisco and Atlanta.
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Orchestras in Groups B through E, with smaller budgets, shorter seasons and less clout, also engage young Americans, often as music directors, though their exposure, inevitably, is limited.
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LONDON — Calling for no fewer than three orchestras and a total of 109 players, Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Gruppen" is one of the 20th century's most monumental pieces of music.
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In the '80s, his approach to guitar tunings and his expansion into longer forms influenced groups like Sonic Youth, whose members played in Mr. Branca's early guitar orchestras.
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At a moment when all orchestras are struggling to attract new audiences, some in classical music worry that old-fashioned formal wear can be off-putting to newcomers.
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If a group of fearless musicians can push the boundaries this far and thrive, then even major orchestras should be able to move beyond their traditional comfort zones.
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But Ms. Young fared well, which was no surprise, given the depth of her experience with major orchestras and leading opera companies throughout Europe and her native Australia.
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Orchestras (and their growing marketing departments), for example, must now spend more to sell single and group tickets — at a time when it is harder to fill seats.
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A new generation of performers and composers, especially some idealistic conductors who hold influential posts at major orchestras, are talking up the adventurousness of new music, without overpromising.
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He just wrapped up two weeks with the San Francisco Symphony, where he was music director from 1985 to 1995, and will visit other orchestras he once led.
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And, unusually for a director, he has partnered with symphony orchestras: His three-year term as an "artist-collaborator" of the Los Angeles Philharmonic began this past season.
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Major orchestras ignored the 150th birthday this year of Amy Beach (1867-1944), but Hyperion did not in this fine release, recorded with tangible commitment by all concerned.
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Started in 218 and coordinated by the Philharmonie de Paris, Demos now has 123 orchestras throughout the country, each with more than 212 children from working-class backgrounds.
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Renée Fleming will headline the 2016-17 classical season at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark in a lineup that also includes visits from prominent European orchestras.
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Indeed, performances of, say, Bach's music the way it sounded during Bach's lifetime can be immeasurably more pleasing to the ear than renditions by large orchestras using modern instruments.
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I've long argued that orchestras everywhere, but especially in America, worry too much about how they play and not enough about what they play and why they play it.
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Ms. Cole, who has played in Broadway shows and numerous orchestras, said her primary concern was that the producers would portray her New York peers as petty and backbiting.
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You don't have to place us, but what do you imagine is happening now, because you've seen this come out in orchestras and art, architecture, tech, everywhere pretty much.
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Management officials said that they were seeking to freeze three positions that are currently vacant during the course of the contract, which other orchestras have done in recent years.
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He also played in orchestras led by Percy Faith, Morton Gould and Andre Kostelanetz, and on radio and television with Steve Allen, Jackie Gleason, Arthur Godfrey and Ed Sullivan.
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"I had offers from many leading orchestras in Europe, but I chose to stay in Perm," said Mr. Currentzis, 44, who favors tight black jeans and leather biker jackets.
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Having made several recordings of his own arrangements of Beatles songs in the 1960s, he periodically conducted orchestras, mostly in Europe and Latin America, in concerts of Beatles music.
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Each projected an uncompromising attitude, even if Mr. Boulez compromised as a music director in London and New York, and Mr. Harnoncourt in his work with traditional symphony orchestras.
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Shift takes inspiration from a defunct Carnegie Hall event, Spring for Music, which, from 2011 to 2014, attracted two dozen orchestras and much offbeat fare to New York City.
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"If more contemporary music by female composers is performed [in ensembles and by orchestras], this will lead to other young women being inspired to write music themselves," says Clare.
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Drew McManus, an arts consultant who has advised musicians on contract negotiations, said that many orchestras fail to be rigorous in quantifying a musician's value, allowing room for bias.
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Wilhelm Furtwängler , the flawed genius who led the Berlin Philharmonic in the early and mid-twentieth century, used to say that American orchestras had the soulless perfection of machines.
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As chief executive of Alex Donner Entertainment, Mr. Donner had four orchestras emblazoned with his name playing that night: two at events in Manhattan, one in Palm Beach, Fla.
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Now Lyric, like other major American opera companies, as well as symphony orchestras, theater troupes and many sports teams, is grappling with a long-term decline in season subscribers.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra will be joined for the occasion by musicians from other ensembles, including the New York, Israel and Vienna philharmonic orchestras, who played under Bernstein's baton.
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Admired as much for his life story as for his musicianship, Mr. Stern was a member of one of the world's most illustrious orchestras for more than three decades.
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The strategy is a reflection of the company's founder, a soft-spoken, classically trained musician who began roasting coffee as a hobby while on the road with traveling orchestras.
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Lang Lang seems to be the go-to soloist for many orchestras when they try to swell their coffers with a gala concert, and the Philharmonic is no exception.
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During his tenure, the Boston Symphony may not have been as flashy as, say, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which has changed how orchestras think about programming and community engagement.
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It is a quirk of history that two of the world's greatest orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic, were both founded 18973 years ago this spring.
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He quickly became a favored guest conductor for leading orchestras around the world and in 1990 was named artistic director of the Northern Sinfonia, then based in Newcastle, England.
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The question isn't whether the Boston Symphony can afford to recover its pioneering spirit, but whether, with resources other orchestras can only dream of, it can afford not to.
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After a preposterous week that saw three major orchestras converge on New York — eight concerts; 22,000 seats; nearly 13 hours of music — the Boston Symphony had the final note.
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When Ms. Jo was preparing to apply for an entry visa last month, Mr. Jo said, the Chinese orchestras were unable to provide the required government-approved invitation letter.
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The first signs of their partnership will be heard next year, when the orchestras will present "Freaky Friday"-like programs trading the repertoires they are most closely associated with.
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He is also the music director of the All-Star Orchestra, an ensemble of players from major American orchestras who perform in a PBS series, airing throughout the year.
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Take a listen: Some other things to catch you up on: The conductor Daniel Harding, who's had trouble with American orchestras, is dipping his toe in this country again.
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Indeed, leaving in 2009 after 17 years as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he kept wriggling out when orchestras approached him, saying he wanted time to compose.
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Joseph Flummerfelt, the pre-eminent American choral conductor of his generation and a collaborator with some of the nation's most renowned orchestras and maestros, died on Friday in Indianapolis.
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But before settling into that role he led major orchestras, conducted the premieres of important works by Bernstein and others, and helped Ellington orchestrate some of his signature compositions.
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He says his government, which did not respond to a request for comment, has done more for children than previous administrations, pointing to youth orchestras, sports programs and vacation camps.
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Wages have also introduced a major sticking pointing in negotiations, with musicians arguing that their annual base pay — while higher than most other orchestras' — has not kept up with inflation.
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"I've heard a lot of colleagues describe it as a guilty pleasure," said Lara St. John, a Canadian-born violinist who has played with many of the major symphony orchestras.
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The concert would provide the opportunity to conduct a first-rate regional orchestra in the core repertory, which he said some orchestras were patronizingly reluctant to offer minority guest conductors.
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He was offered other unspecified jobs before Leipzig came along, but only Leipzig appealed, because of its traditions and the ease with which the two orchestras found they could collaborate.
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Built as a luxury liner with theaters, staterooms and orchestras on board, it was also a Cold War secret weapon: It could rapidly be converted into a fast troop ship.
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She points to simple fixes—with the introduction of blind auditions, orchestras increased the likelihood that a female musician would make it past the first round by fifty per cent.
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The brass section (as with most ballet orchestras) is the most flawed, though it played "Beauty" with a lusty relish that made me notice new layers in this repertory staple.
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To the Editor: George Gelles correctly notes the dearth of American-born conductors in major American orchestras, but doesn't consider one of the most important potential correctives to this problem.
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On her own, Ms. Haïm has become a go-to guest in this repertory with prestigious symphony orchestras like the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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The symphonies of Anton Bruckner are among the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin's great loves, a cycle he has recorded with one of his other orchestras, the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal.
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In December, the Association of British Orchestras produced a detailed study, pointing out how many ensembles relied on multinational touring and numerous other benefits that flowed from European Union membership.
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Visiting orchestras will include the Berlin Philharmonic, which will be led by its incoming chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, led by its music director, Andris Nelsons.
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Mr. Rattle significantly broadened the Philharmonic's repertoire — not only by programming more new music, but also by reclaiming Baroque works that many symphony orchestras had ceded to early-music ensembles.
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PITTSBURGH — There is a stark reality increasingly facing American orchestras: They are now charities, relying more, on average, on philanthropy than on the ticket sales that used to buttress them.
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Ms. Canellakis, who studied violin at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and conducting at Juilliard, has appeared with more than two dozen orchestras in the past two seasons.
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In collaborations with traditional opera companies; with orchestras here and in Los Angeles; and with his own experimental company, the Industry, this director is ambitiously reorienting the future of opera.
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Orchestras from around the world plan tours of China years in advance, seeing them as a way to sell tickets, raise their profile and cultivate China's growing wealthy class as donors.
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With a voice that penetrated through enormous orchestras while remaining sunny and flexible, he sang, with little apparent effort, notoriously troublesome-to-cast parts in works by Wagner, Strauss and Verdi.
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Farhoud and his wife, Dubravka, settled in Newton, Massachusetts, where they played in orchestras, taught at the New England Conservatory, and brought up three children: Ottessa, Darius, and Sarvenaz, the eldest.
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In an email exchange, Hickman said that some of his graduate students earned as much as $20,000 a year performing freelance engagements, or with area orchestras and chamber ensembles, or both.
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American orchestras are increasingly enamored of the idea that concerts must be dressed up with visual and theatrical elements—that audiences can no longer be trusted simply to sit and listen.
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Mr. McManus said he'd like that practice to end, as well as for orchestras to include in their filings, beyond boilerplate, the process they've used to quantify a music director's value.
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It seems that, in practical terms, the need for a philharmonic arises when there are two or more local orchestras confusing people, and that tends to happen only in urban settings.
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Ninety-nine players rehearsed "Elektra," which uses one of the biggest orchestras in opera, and to make room for them the Met lowered its pit by a foot and a half.
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So it is only fitting that as orchestras around the world celebrate the centennial of Bernstein's birth, Tanglewood, his longest-standing artistic association, is planning to go all out next summer.
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Both orchestras will probably use guest conductors until they appoint permanent music directors; all contenders will have the chops to conduct a repertoire ranging from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Arnold Schönberg.
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He lived out the remaining decades with his husband, John Bloom, on an estate in Indianapolis, appearing with the symphony as its conductor laureate and with other orchestras as a guest.
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With the old subscription-ticketing format looking wobblier than ever, many major orchestras have acknowledged that institutions must shake things up and make each program distinctive, something not to be missed.
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His poised, earthy Rameau is almost as audacious, if only because this repertoire has for far too long been seen as the province of period ensembles, and taboo for symphony orchestras.
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Mr. Skrowaczewski (pronounced skro-vah-CHEFF-skee) led orchestras in Europe and Asia after he stepped down from the Minnesota Orchestra, but he returned to it annually as its conductor laureate.
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It's a challenging yet apt assignment for the Met debut of Jakub Hrusa, a rising Czech maestro who's already a regular with American orchestras, if not yet with American opera houses.
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In 2014, for example, women represented only 1.4 percent of conductors in British orchestras, according to "Gender, Subjectivity and Cultural Work," a 2018 book by Christina Scharff of King's College London.
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Tip Just about any version of the familiar cutting tool will do — "any nonelectric, full-bladed saw," says Natalia (the Saw Lady) Paruz, who has performed with dozens of orchestras internationally.
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"They bring music to one's ears" could refer to orchestras, instruments, sound waves … Solve a few of the five themed answers and this entry begins to come in loud and clear.
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Excessive choral forces numbering over 300 voices and enlarged orchestras with added percussion and brass of the kind favored in England by Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Thomas Beecham were used.
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