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• n  a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
• n  a large orchestra; can perform symphonies
  we heard the Vienna symphony

• WPA symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians.
• In Manhattan, the symphony season reached its winter peak, and Carnegie Hall resounded with fine music night after night.
• These are the major symphony orchestras of America, a group of 20 or so crack ensembles that are flourishing artistically as never before.

• symphonic music
• symphony orchestra
• philharmonic

News & Articles

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• Symphony's birthday bash offers sound of a century
  Symphony's birthday bash offers sound of a century Houston Chronicle Copyright 2013 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:05 pm, Friday, June 21, 2013 [...] around 17,000, by the orchestra's estimate, turned out Friday to hear the group celebrate its 100th birthday with a free concert at Miller Outdoor ...
  June 22, 2013 - Houston Chronicle
• Symphony gets 'Rite' right
  Symphony gets 'Rite' right There is a line of thought that says the difficulties in playing Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" - the treachery of the unpredictable rhythms, the pinpoint orchestral balances - are woven into the essence of the piece, and that a performance in which the musicians aren't heard to be struggling is somehow less than authentic. Instead of craggy, rough-hewn explosions and ...
  June 21, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• Symphony Health Solutions Opens London Hub to Target European Market
  LONDON -- Symphony Health Solutions, a Horsham, Pa.-based provider of high-value market research, analytics and technology solutions for life science manufacturers, payers and providers, today announced ...
  June 21, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Tan Dun in FOXNews
  ...April, those selected will be flown to New York to participate in a three-day workshop with Thomas, culminating in a Carnegie Hall performance on April 15 of what Tan calls his "Internet Symphony No. 1 _ Eroica."
• Roger Ebert in USA Today
  The motion picture is the art form I love above all others,Ebert said in a statement recorded via a synthetic computer voice with a British accent. "It is the symphony, and you are the conductors."
• Ingrid Betancourt in Forbes
  It was an extraordinary symphony in which everything went perfectly,Betancourt said.