orchestral
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As for regular orchestral music, the sound system was hit and miss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
The brief orchestral passage that ends “Send in the Clowns” is borrowed from Stravinsky’s “Petrushka.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Charles Ives’s remarkable orchestral work “The Fourth of July” was, as film composer Bernard Herrmann told oral historian Vivien Perlis, intended as more than a mere poetic impression of an occasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Monty Norman's surf guitar riff and John Barry's sweeping orchestral scores spawned an entire genre of spy music – full of minor key suspense and piercing stabs of trumpet.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
In its purest form, the symphonic poem style is what orchestral film music grew out of in the 1920s and ’30s, its job to support and describe something outside music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
