What is "orchestras"

Usage examples of "orchestras".

She's a poppet, an absolute gem, runs Rannaldini's houses, sorts out his finances, checks his contracts, protects him from importunate fans and ex-mistresses, looks after his hoards of fraightful kiddies, and whisks up supper whenever he invaites entire orchestras home without any warning.

But as he was also Musical Director of other orchestras in Germany and mid-America, where the London Met were concerned, he would make a series of snap decisions twice a year over a three-hour lunch with Hermione's husband, Bob Harefield, his orchestra manager.

The front was even better, with the sculptured, usually tanned, features, the beautifully shaped, slightly thin lips, and the dark, dark eyes that not only mesmerized orchestras, but gazed deep, deep into women's eyes until their eyeballs melted.

American orchestras, and their social benefactors, like their musical directors to live in the city and lead regular lives.

In those days musicians of good quality might be found in the orchestras of movie theatres, because this was in the mute era of film, before sound.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

He went as far as to promise Danny the chance to play with major orchestras as early as next year.

Of course, I'll write to all the orchestras concerned and give them my apologies.

Here were giant gladiators of Kwill who made even the Skandars look frail, and teams of acrobats clambering impatiently over each other's shoulders, and an entire nude corps de ballet, and three orchestras of strange outworldly instruments, tuning up in bizarre discord, and animal-trainers tugging strings that controlled floater-borne beasts of improbable size and ferocity, and freaks of every description—a man who weighed a thousand pounds, a woman eleven feet high and slender as a black bamboo rod, a Vroon with two heads, Liimen who were triplets and joined by a rope of ghastly blue-gray flesh from waist to waist to waist, someone whose face was like a hatchet and whose lower body was like a wheel—and so much more that Valentine was dizzied by the sights and sounds and smells of this congregation of the bewildering.

The Hungarian State Railroad has four orchestras, believe it or not, and Jozsef is going to conduct number one.

The program is supposed to be Brahms and Bach, I think—one of the Hungarian state orchestras and," he added, "a lot of good shopping.

It has more history, finer parks, a livelier and more varied press, better theatres, more numerous orchestras and museums, leafier squares, safer streets, and more courteous inhabitants than any other large city in the world.

Elgar conducted orchestras in the Winter Gardens and Nellie Melba sang.

Suddenly the world began cautiously to come to Glasgow and thereupon discovered to its delight that this was a city densely endowed with splendid museums, lively pubs, world-class orchestras, and no fewer than seventy parks, more than any other city of its size in Europe.

One brother after another, conducting hundred-piece orchestras in palatial ballrooms.