as in orchestra
a usually large group of musicians playing together
plays oboe in the local symphony orchestra
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Recent Examples of symphony orchestra
Violins that are hundreds of years old still have seats in the top symphony orchestras around the world.
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Parker Hall, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
New sounds: Check out these new musical instruments The standard configuration of the symphony orchestra has remained mostly unchanged for the past century.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2025
Since graduation, Chen has racked up assignments in Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini with opera companies and symphony orchestras across the United States and in Europe, often as the motormouth buffoons and weasels of classic comedies.
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Her fervent pursuit to professionally play the euphonium, which is not used in traditional symphony orchestras, had come with many stressful auditions.
—Sarah Diamond Christopher Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2024
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Parker Hall, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
New sounds: Check out these new musical instruments The standard configuration of the symphony orchestra has remained mostly unchanged for the past century.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2025
Since graduation, Chen has racked up assignments in Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini with opera companies and symphony orchestras across the United States and in Europe, often as the motormouth buffoons and weasels of classic comedies.
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Her fervent pursuit to professionally play the euphonium, which is not used in traditional symphony orchestras, had come with many stressful auditions.
—Sarah Diamond Christopher Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for symphony orchestra
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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.—
Randy McMullen,
The Mercury News,
20 Mar. 2025
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The Puerto Rican artist’s band and dancers will join with each orchestra in all cities, traveling with a team of around 40 people.—
Griselda Flores,
Billboard,
17 Mar. 2025
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For hours, there was a steady symphony of anti-Musk chants and horn honking.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
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The Global Water Crisis For millennia, nature has orchestrated a symphony of purification of its waters through natural filtration processes.—
Sahit Muja,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The philharmonic then contracted with Tracey Levy of Levy Employment Law to conduct an independent second investigation.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
6 Nov. 2024
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An emotional high point was the film’s six-minute segment of Cooper at England’s Ely Cathedral conducting the finale of Mahler’s Second Symphony — a work Bernstein led 19 times at Lincoln Center from 1963-89, including his 1,000th performance with the philharmonic in 1971.—
Ronald Blum,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2024
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“Symphony orchestra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/symphony%20orchestra. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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