orchestra
noun
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
Clay Price directs the onstage orchestra, which sounds grand, and the ensemble fills the stage with color and motion.
—Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
As for the music, composer Chanda Dancy used a big orchestra, plus solo fiddling on the violin and viola for a soulfulness to the soundscape.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 June 2024
This was made possible thanks to vintage music specialist and orchestrator Larry Moore, who took a simplified piano and two-violin rehearsal version of Minkus’s original score and reimagined it for a musical theater orchestra, imbuing it with the sound of the first half of the twentieth century.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 June 2024
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“Orchestra.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orchestra. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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orchestra
noun
from Latin orchestra "the place in front of the stage where prominent persons sit," from Greek orchēstra "a semicircular area in front of the stage of a theater where the chorus dances," from orcheisthai "to dance"
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