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Wikipedia categories named after American orchestras (13 C) Pages in category "American orchestras" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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.
Koji Kondo (Japanese: 近藤 浩治, Hepburn: Kondō Kōji, born August 13, 1961) is a Japanese composer and senior executive at the video game company Nintendo.He is best known for his contributions for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, with his Super Mario Bros. theme being the first piece of music from a video game included in the American National Recording Registry.
Kanata Symphony Orchestra; Kingston Symphony; Kitchener–Waterloo Symphony (defunct since September 2023) Manitoba Chamber Orchestra; Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal) Montreal Youth Symphony Orchestra (Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Montréal) National Arts Centre Orchestra; Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra
The Orchestra's creation was inspired by pioneering work of figures including Jorge Peña Hen (Chile), Ana Milena Muñoz Gómez (Colombia), Oscar Arias (Costa Rica), José Antonio Abreu (Venezuela), and others throughout the Americas, to give the platform of the symphony orchestra renewed purpose at the epicenter of social transformations in ...
This inclusive list of North American opera companies contains American and Canadian professional opera companies and opera related organizations with entries in the Wikipedia. For opera companies in Latin America (including Mexico) see List of Latin American and South American opera companies.
Orchestra America (OA) is a nonprofit organization that promotes orchestral high school music education through events and workshops. As a division of Bands of America ? it merged in 2006 with the "Music for All Foundation," which also sought to provide performance opportunities and musical education opportunities for schools and communities.
Prior to founding the West Side Community Concerts/West Side Orchestral Concerts, Frédérique Petrides, a pioneer in her field, had founded the Orchestrette Classique, an all-women's chamber orchestra, which existed from 1932 to 1943, premiered works by new American composers, such as Paul Creston, Samuel Barber and David Diamond; and gave five to six concerts annually in Carnegie chamber ...