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The BBC Radio Orchestra was a large flexible studio ensemble on the Nelson Riddle/Henry Mancini model, with a full jazz Big Band and symphonic strings. The BBC Big Band made up the orchestra's brass, reed and rhythm sections, and was nominally the orchestra's jazz wing.
BBC Dance Orchestra (1928–1952, formed as the London Radio Dance Band in 1926, became the BBC Showband in 1952 and the BBC Big Band in 1964) [10] BBC Empire Orchestra (1934–1939, part of BBC Empire Service, now the BBC World Service ; orchestra conducted by Eric Fogg ) [ 11 ]
The BBC Radio Orchestra was a broadcasting orchestra based in London, maintained by the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1964 until 1991. The BBC Radio Orchestra was formed in 1964 as a large, flexible studio orchestra on the Nelson Riddle/Henry Mancini model, featuring a full jazz Big Band combined with symphonic strings. [1]
The BBC Concert Orchestra is the BBC's most populist ensemble, playing a mixture of classical music, light music and popular numbers. Its primary role is to produce music for radio broadcast, and it is the resident orchestra of the world's longest-running live music programme, Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 3 .
Among the many orchestras he led were those for: the BBC Radio Home Service's radio musical version of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1962). He was conductor of the BBC Revue Orchestra and subsequently the principal conductor of the new BBC Radio Orchestra [1] and the BBC Big Band [2] when both ensembles were formed in 1967.
Alyn Ainsworth (BBC Northern Dance Orchestra) John Arthy (Pasadena Roof Orchestra) Bill Ashton ... Don Lusher (The Don Lusher Big Band) M. Ken Mackintosh; N
Members of the British big band the BBC Big Band, formerly known as the BBC Dance Orchestra and the BBC Showband See also: Category:BBC Orchestras people Pages in category "BBC Big Band members"
The British Broadcasting Corporation operates five full-time permanent orchestras, as well as a full-time chamber choir, the BBC Singers and the BBC Big Band. Denmark also maintains orchestra in the form of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Danish Radio Big Band, Chamber Orchestra and Radio Choir.