orchestral

orchestra | American Dictionary

orchestra
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɔr·kə·strə, -kes·trə/
a large group of musicians playing different instruments and usually organized to play together and led by a conductor:
the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
The orchestra of a theater is the part on the main floor:
We’ve got seats in the fifth row of the orchestra.

orchestral

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ɔrˈkes·trəl/
an orchestral arrangement

Examples of orchestra

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The potential and dilemmas here will interest anyone with a passing acquaintance with orchestras.
I have learnt a great deal through conducting orchestras.
They used to be performed at outside venues; now they're performed in the orchestra's home hall, which itself is emotionally intimate and tactile.
Throughout the years, you have continued to appear as guest conductor with orchestras in many countries.
The authors themselves of the songs organised orchestras, brass bands, and choruses to roam the city performing their compositions.
The fact that orchestras were often imprecise is not necessarily something we would now wish to aspire to.
They also describe the advent of recording and its effects on the particular sound characteristics of different orchestras.
Her output of electroacoustic music features works for both tape alone and with solo instruments, voice, chamber ensembles, and orchestras.
Even in songs accompanied by orchestras, the arrangers had instruments which had been traditionally very little exploited emerging from the background.
I should be surprised if even those who live and breathe orchestras do not find thought-provoking material here, as well as anecdotes to delight in.
The central issue about the future of orchestras is signalled in different ways in the remaining chapters.
Have you seen examples of inappropriate behaviour in orchestras?
Unfortunately, symphony orchestras are not available to everyone.
However, since several orchestras of instruments are used, this range is too limited for some of them.
Thus, it literally falls apart before our ears, slipping down under into the orchestra's primordial resonance.
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entire orchestra
They range from breadcrumb, cream liqueur and pizza-base manufacturers to a company that developed an automatic cattle dewormer and, for the first time, an entireorchestra.
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