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Recent Examples of sinfoniettaAnd much of the balance between his group and the sinfonietta was yet to be hashed out.—Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
Bay City News Foundation Israel Philharmonic returns to Bay Area
Davies Hall in San Francisco plays host Sunday night to the Israel Philharmonic, the 88-year-old orchestra based in Tel Aviv that is the pride of its country and is now on a five-city tour of the United States.
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Randy McMullen,
The Mercury News,
20 Mar. 2025
The Puerto Rican artist’s band and dancers will join with each orchestra in all cities, traveling with a team of around 40 people.
Today, jazz suffuses the city so completely that the genre is embedded in funeral traditions here, as brass bands often accompany mourners from the church to the cemetery in a celebratory display.
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Nicholas DeRenzo,
AFAR Media,
21 Mar. 2025
Saturday’s demonstration in Boston had a festive atmosphere, with a brass band playing music as protesters carried signs and chanted.
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Rodrique Ngowi and Jonathan J. Cooper,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2025
The Knights, the contemporary chamber orchestra, is continuing its Rhapsody commissioning project this season at Carnegie Hall.
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Jane Levere,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2024
Also on the program will be Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s The History of Red, a piece for chamber orchestra and soprano inspired in part by Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915.
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