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Seven American orchestras were numbered among the world's top 20 in a 2008 critics' poll by Gramophone. They were, in rank order, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (5th), the Cleveland Orchestra (7th), the Los Angeles Philharmonic (8th), the Boston Symphony Orchestra (11th), the New York Philharmonic (12th), the San Francisco Symphony (13th), and ...
There were 1,224 symphony orchestras in the United States as of 2014. Some U.S. orchestras maintain a full 52-week performing season, but most are small and have shorter seasons. Some U.S. orchestras maintain a full 52-week performing season, but most are small and have shorter seasons.
This is a list of symphony orchestras that includes orchestras with established notability. The orchestras of Europe have a separate list.
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Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil's 'Das Rheingold.' The Industry's 'Comet/Poppea.' Pacific Opera Project's 'Don Bucefalo.' The year 2024 delivered great moments for classical music.
The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City. Known officially as the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., [1] and globally known as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) [2] [3] or the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, [4] it is one of the leading American orchestras popularly called the "Big Five". [5]
It was followed in 1935 by the Young People's Symphony Orchestra in Berkeley, California, which describes itself as the second oldest independent youth symphony in the country. [5] By 1963, Life magazine counted about 15,000 youth orchestras in the country and noted that they were producing music of a caliber that could appeal to adult audiences.
In 2012, Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela performed all nine of Mahler's symphonies over three weeks in Los Angeles and one week in Caracas. The project was described as both "a mammoth tribute to the composer" and "an unprecedented conducting feat for the conductor."