What is "a far cry"

Cry \Cry\ (kr?), n.; pl. Cries (kr?z). [F. cri, fr. crier to cry. See Cry, v. i. ]

1. A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
   --Milton.

2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.

   Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever.
   --Macaulay.

3. Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.

   There shall be a great cry throughout all the land.
   --Ex. xi. 6.

   An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry.
   --Tennyson.

4. Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
   --Swift.

   The cry went once on thee.
   --Shak.

5. Importunate supplication.

   O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls.
   --Shak.

6. Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.

   The street cries of London.
   --Mayhew.

7. Common report; fame.

   The cry goes that you shall marry her.
   --Shak.

8. A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.

   All now depends upon a good cry.
   --Beaconsfield.

9. A pack of hounds.
   --Milton.

   A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.
   --Shak.

10. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.

    Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players?
    --Shak.

11. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

    A far cry, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.

A Far Cry is a Boston-based chamber orchestra. The orchestra is self-conducted and consists of 18 musicians called "The Criers". It was founded in 2007 by a group of 17 musicians in Boston. The orchestra rehearses in Jamaica Plain and has been the Chamber Orchestra in Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum since 2009. A Far Cry has toured across America and undertook their first European tour in 2012. They also collaborate with local students in an educational partnership with the New England Conservatory. The orchestra has released seven albums; their album Dreams & Prayers was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2015 for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance.

A Far Cry is a film about displaced persons in South Korea, following the Korean War (1950 - 1953). It was commissioned by the NGO Save the Children Fund UK and was broadcast in the UK by the BBC in 1959. It appears on the programme of two International Film Festivals in 2015.