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The NSO's additional programmes include the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute. [24] [25] First Lady Nancy Reagan conducts the National Symphony Orchestra, 1987. Through the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund for New Orchestral Works, the NSO has commissioned more than 50 works, including cycles of fanfares and encores.
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On 19 January 1943 the orchestra performed at the Royal Albert Hall with pianist Cyril Smith as the soloist. [3] [6] The orchestra made several recordings for the Decca record label [7] and was hired to play for film soundtracks, including The Rake's Progress (1945), Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) and The Magic Bow (1946).
Orchestras which choose not to have principal conductors, such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, are omitted from this list. Likewise, principal conductors for opera companies are omitted, unless the orchestra of that opera company performs orchestral concerts under ...
Gianandrea Noseda. Gianandrea Noseda (born 23 April 1964) is an Italian conductor.He is currently the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.; general music director (Generalmusikdirektor) of Zurich Opera; principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra; and the music director of the Tsinandali Festival in Tsinandali, Georgia.
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.