orchestral
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The brief orchestral passage that ends “Send in the Clowns” is borrowed from Stravinsky’s “Petrushka.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
He’s run it on orchestral performances and a pop show earlier in the season, finding it capable of creating what he called “a club atmosphere in this giant acoustic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 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
Phil guest conductor while rising to the top rungs of the international orchestral circuit, along with obtaining a commercial flying license and piloting, now and then, for Air France.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
The restaurant was filled now with people who chatted and laughed to an orchestral background and a clatter of plates, and glancing at the clock above the door I saw that it was two o’clock.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
