orchestra

Conductor Kelly Kuo captured the opera’s pacing but sometimes let the orchestra overpower the singers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

It had triumphantly opened Walt Disney Concert Hall four years earlier, and over the past 15 seasons Salonen had made it the most farseeing orchestra in the land — and beyond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The orchestra had been founded as an outlet to Hollywood studio musicians, and its first music director was the lively Mozartean, Neville Marriner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

It’s felt between the actors on stage and from the orchestra pit to the last row of balcony seats.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Guests would bring their flutes or violins and, as each member of the family sang or played an instrument, we made quite an orchestra gathered around the upright piano in Tante Jans’s front room.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Gospel choirs, country musicians, jazz ensembles, mariachi groups, Indigenous performers, military bands and local community orchestras share stages throughout the city.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

In addition, the NEA offered further support to 34 American orchestras for dozens more new scores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The venue hosted jazz and vocal legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Al Cooper alongside band battles between the Chick Webb, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman orchestras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Daniel Harding, a British conductor with a storied career leading Europe's top orchestras, will take the helm of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the institution announced Tuesday.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

And as these new rules were put in place around the country, an extraordinary thing happened: orchestras began to hire women.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell