How to Use symphony orchestra in a Sentence

symphony orchestra

noun
  • She's a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
  • Many more are members of large, first-rate symphony orchestras around the globe.
    — Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But watching a great movie while a full symphony orchestra plays the soundtrack live?
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Elite art practice would be the ballet or the symphony orchestra.
    — Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Violins that are hundreds of years old still have seats in the top symphony orchestras around the world.
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Violins that are hundreds of years old still have seats in the top symphony orchestras around the world.
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The project reimagines his catalog of hits, now backed by a full symphony orchestra.
    — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Live performances of popular films by symphony orchestras have seen a boom in the past decade.
    — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • The city boasts a lively arts scene with museums, theaters, and a symphony orchestra.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2024
  • These Ellington scores tend to suffer from a symphony orchestra’s failure to swing.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • Just a few years ago, having a symphony orchestra accompany a film or a video was still a novelty.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Jigar Shah is living an investor’s dream, one with more strings attached than a symphony orchestra.
    — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 3 July 2023
  • These days, 20 years is a long tenure for the music director of a symphony orchestra.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 7 May 2020
  • Faye Webster has announced special concerts where she will be backed by full symphony orchestras.
    — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 10 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The singers, who both visited Connecticut theaters on solo tours, will be backed by a symphony orchestra.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then, David Pogue learns about symphony orchestra concerts where a film coincides with a live performance of the music found in the movie.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tea is the principal oboe in the wind ensemble and symphony orchestra, and currently the tenor saxophone section leader of the marching band.
    — Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Setting the story in the culture of the symphony orchestra is, to the general film-going public, exotic and hence intriguing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Primarily a clarinet player, Samuel eagerly learned the bass clarinet and performs as a soloist with last year’s symphony orchestra.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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