orchestra

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And her performance of the lead single Berghain - with Bjork, a full orchestra and a youth choir - on stage at the Brit Awards in February brought her to a wider audience.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

There are creaky sections with various bits of percussion and tapped string overtones conveying an otherworldly Harry Partch-like texture, the sort of junkyard orchestra that inspired Tom Waits in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Timo Kurkikangas’s sound design could use some tweaks—the spoken text was sometimes tinny or drowned out by the orchestra.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

With Gustavo Dudamel’s final season as music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic reaching its homestretch, the orchestra has announced the appointment of its latest not music director.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Monod’s visit to California had not been particularly fruitful—he had spent most of his time playing Bach with the local orchestra and learning Dixie and jazz—but Paris was utterly depressing, a city under siege.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee