orchestra

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This Music May Contain Hope fuses old-school jazz with an orchestra, blues, big band and soul, reflecting what Raye told the BBC last year.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

He frequently uses the instrumentalists in the chamber orchestra like theatrical characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The first, “The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit,” seemed to take zaniness to outlandish operatic extremes, which led to the orchestra commissioning the next three.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The annual Carnegie Hall visit of Harry Bicket and the English Concert, the superb period-instrument orchestra, is a required date for Handel opera fans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Parties on sinking ships, the icy water bubbling around the waists of the orchestra as they sawed out a last brave chorus of “Auld Lang Syne.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt