How to Use symphony orchestra in a Sentence

symphony orchestra

noun

• She's a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
• In the first place, so far as is known, this was the first symphony orchestra concert ever played on the deck of a Navy ship.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• Violins that are hundreds of years old still have seats in the top symphony orchestras around the world.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 29 June 2023
• But watching a great movie while a full symphony orchestra plays the soundtrack live?
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• It’s a center of jazz going back 100 years, and it's known for having a great symphony orchestra.
  — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 7 June 2022
• Elite art practice would be the ballet or the symphony orchestra.
  — Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
• Finale Ligure, a sun-baked town at the edge of the Ligurian Sea, has no symphony orchestra or opera house.
  — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
• And all that’s left to be heard are Lars Ulrich’s drums thundering over the precise acoustic work of the large symphony orchestra that surrounds the four men.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
• The first was a profile of the flutist Demarre McGill, who had performed a concerto with the local symphony orchestra.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
• Heyward, 31, is the youngest music director of one of the two dozen biggest-budget symphony orchestras in the U.S.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
• Still, the first African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the U.S. and began playing the first song of the evening.
  — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 16 July 2021
• These days, 20 years is a long tenure for the music director of a symphony orchestra.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 7 May 2020
• Live performances of popular films by symphony orchestras have seen a boom in the past decade.
  — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• Joining the union officials were a handful of musicians from the symphony orchestra, who played a few songs.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 20 July 2019
• These Ellington scores tend to suffer from a symphony orchestra’s failure to swing.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Brahms was a mostly large-scale composer who presided over a continuing growth of the size of the symphony orchestra.
  — Daniel Gelernter, National Review, 8 June 2019
• The event brings the beloved 2003 Christmas flick to the silver screen alongside a live performance of John Debney’s score by a full symphony orchestra led by the film composer himself.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• During one musical sketch, cast member Mikey Day played a stuffy conductor of a symphony orchestra in need of a flutist.
  — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• For much of its history, the Philharmonic, the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, was closed off to women.
  — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Jigar Shah is living an investor’s dream, one with more strings attached than a symphony orchestra.
  — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 3 July 2023
• The Chorale’s production, conducted by Brett Karlin, is scored for a full symphony orchestra, double choir and four soloists.
  — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023
• Bring your picnic blankets and get ready to dig into the culinary treats of local food trucks for a movie under the stars accompanied by a live 52-piece symphony orchestra and jazz band.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Get a private group tour to learn in greater depth about the artwork on display or watch a major city’s symphony orchestra perform a moving rendition.
  — Tracey Sawyer, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• It’s not an anomaly for a symphony orchestra and an opera company to share a music director.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• For Flea, playing music — trumpet in his youth, with dreams of being in a symphony orchestra — was a means of avoiding his stepdad, an abusive addict.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
• Moreover, The Shell will be the first permanent, year-round bayside concert venue in the nation that is operated by a symphony orchestra.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• But anytime a fortissimo surfaced in any of the scores it was turbocharged into the volume level of a symphony orchestra.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
• Gray, a musician in San Diego for 40 years, will lead the chorale accompanied by symphony orchestra in performing a range of music.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2021
• The National Theater of Cuba in Havana even called off a concert by the national symphony orchestra because of the lack of fuel.
  — Ed Augustin, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• In the 1930s, he was heard by millions of radio listeners as the musical director and a frequent soloist with CBS’s symphony orchestra.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024