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orchestra
has definitions from the fields of performing arts,music
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[ noun ] (music) a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players
Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)Those would be reserved for the orchestra 's great nights when the soloist can surpass himself . This time the orchestra gave him some superb support fired by response to his own high mood . There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist , orchestra and music to ultimate fusion . It got the kind of scrambled , coarsened performance that can happen to best of orchestras when the man with the baton lacks technique and style . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Command 's new Brahms Second is a major effort to make a record that sounds like a real orchestra rather than a copy of one . |
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[ noun ] (performing arts) seating on the main floor in a theater
Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Each scene is shot straight through , as had been the universal custom , from a camera fixed in a single position , but in the outdoor scenes , especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws , Porter 's camera position breaks , necessarily , with the camera position standard until then , which had been , roughly , that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play . |
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