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The Big Five are five American ... among the world's top 20 in a 2008 critics' poll by Gramophone. They were, in rank order, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (5th ...
CBC Radio Orchestra; Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; Esprit Orchestra; Georgian Bay Symphony; Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra; I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra; Kanata Symphony Orchestra; Kingston Symphony; Kitchener–Waterloo Symphony (defunct since September 2023) Manitoba Chamber Orchestra; Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Orchestre ...
[4] The five were the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra. But the concept and the list are now outmoded. Music critics today include more orchestras on their lists of "top" American orchestras. [5] Notable U.S. orchestras are listed here by state.
Rattle strongly supported youth music. He led two attempts at gaining the record for the World's Largest Orchestra, both designed to raise awareness of youth music in schools. The first, in 1996, was unsuccessful. The second, in 1998, did succeed and the record held at nearly 4,000 musicians [11] until it was broken in 2000 by a group in ...
Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; German: Wiener Philharmoniker) is an orchestra that was founded in 1842 and is considered to be one of the finest in the world. [1] [2] [3] The Vienna Philharmonic is based at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Its members are selected from the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Selection involves a lengthy process ...
Allison, John (ed.), Great Opera Houses of the World, supplement to Opera magazine, London 2003; Beauvert, Thierry, Opera Houses of the World, The Vendôme Press, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-86565-978-8; Lynn, Karyl Charna, Opera: the Guide to Western Europe's Great Houses, Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-945465-81-5
The Metropole Orkest (transl. Metropole Orchestra) is a jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full-time ensemble of its kind in the world. A hybrid orchestra, it combines jazz, big band and classical symphony orchestra styles. Comprising between 52 and 97 musicians, it is versatile across many musical forms, and is ...
An orchestra (/ ˈ ɔːr k ɪ s t r ə /; OR ... (the other orchestras ranked among the world's top five by Gramophone in 2008). ... but in jazz big bands or large ...