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Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal) Montreal Youth Symphony Orchestra (Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Montréal) National Arts Centre Orchestra
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 ...
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 ...
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.
In 2006, the orchestra announced it would investigate its role during the Nazi regime. [20] In 2007, Misha Aster published The Reich's Orchestra, his study of the relationship of the Berlin Philharmonic to the rulers of the Third Reich. [21] Also in 2007, the documentary film The Reichsorchester by Enrique Sánchez Lansch was released. [22]
The Cab Calloway Orchestra; The Capp-Pierce Juggernaut; Ralph Carmichael Big Band; Benny Carter; Casa Loma Orchestra; Cherry Poppin' Daddies (revival); Chopteeth - afrobeat; Crescent Super Band - Jazz, Jump Swing, Modern Big Band, Swing Revival, Great American Songbook
The orchestra has been the motive of one of the world's most famous bullion coins: the Vienna Philharmonic coin. The coin is struck in pure gold, 999.9 fine (24 carats). It is issued every year, in four different face values, sizes and weights. It is used as an investment product, although it finishes almost always in the hands of collectors.
The first is a Baroque orchestra (i.e., J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), which generally had a smaller number of performers, and in which one or more chord-playing instruments, the basso continuo group (e.g., harpsichord or pipe organ and assorted bass instruments to perform the bassline), played an important role; the second is a typical classical ...