symphonic

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It should be mentioned that it’s no small feat for an orchestra to shift from symphonic acrobatics to the demands of Wagner’s musical dramas — let alone in the span of a single evening.

From Washington Post

But while his soundtracks are the stuff of cultural immortality, his symphonic works have never found a foothold in the repertory.

From New York Times

He stresses that these aren’t merely symphonic arrangements of the Dead’s music but an attempt to integrate a classical orchestra into the jammy spirit of the band.

From Los Angeles Times

Gershwin, Ravel, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Copland, Bernstein, Shostakovich, Morton Gould and many more of the classical and semi-classical white greats long ago made jazz a part of their symphonic vocabulary.

From Los Angeles Times

No American symphonic ensemble, for example, is better than the Cleveland Orchestra, but it stands largely alone at home.

From New York Times