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Meanings of symphony orchestra in English

Portuguese
sinfonia
Catalan
simfonia

A large orchestra; can perform symphonies.

sinfonia
Russian
симфонический оркестр
Portuguese
orquesta sinfónica
Spanish
orquesta filarmonica
Catalan
orquestra simfònica

Orchestra that performs symphonies.

симфонический оркестр
Synonyms
Examples for "symphony"
Examples for "symphony"
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Photo: Supplied The Wesendonck Lieder made a good balance with Bruckner's symphony.
Radio NZ
2
The land was a great symphony; she the haunting theme of it.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
3
Photo: Public Domain The symphony's five movements each have their own character.
Radio NZ
4
To Goethe, nature is the symphony; to Byron it is the prelude.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
5
Given a choice, she would probably have rather been at the symphony.
The vaults
1
The philharmonic orchestra goes back to 1701 and music is always playing somewhere.
The South African
2
It runs like clockwork; it's a philharmonic orchestra where bum notes aren't permitted.
The Guardian
3
We went to the philharmonic, we went to plays.
Ebony
4
We apply for a job as first viola with the Israeli Philharmonic.'
Kalooki Nights
5
Norway's Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is recorded in a nice perspective as well.
The Irish Times
Usage of symphony orchestra in English
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Hamlet knew that, potentially at least, he was a whole symphony orchestra.
Eyeless in Gaza
2
Katy Gosset meets some seasoned musicans who have their own symphony orchestra.
Radio NZ
3
I was conducting a symphony orchestra at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
The Irish Times
4
Maybe a bar, maybe a scale, maybe even an entire symphony orchestra.
Terminal Compromise
5
Incidentally we've got a very fine symphony orchestra-probably among the world's half-dozen best.
Childhood's End
6
It's a symphony orchestra, different instruments brought together to play one perfect chord.
The new yorker
7
Bringing a symphony orchestra to Hong Kong is an undertaking of alarming proportions.
The Irish Times
8
She runs a symphony orchestra and they had to get an outside audit.
The new yorker
9
He was surprised to find that every symphony orchestra had a yearly deficit.
The Americanization of Edward Bok / The Autobiography of a Dutch...
10
I used to go and see the symphony orchestra playing.
The Irish Times
11
There was no full-time symphony orchestra until the late 1940s.
The Irish Times
12
There is a writers' workshop, a master-and-apprentice program for artists & a symphony orchestra.
The new yorker
13
She wouldn't even dare to play in a symphony orchestra.
The Silent Sister
14
Another is the symphony orchestra, operating under the tutelage of a wise and omnipotent conductor.
The new yorker
15
The oldest symphony orchestra in the United States today played a concert in isolated North Korea.
The Irish Times
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It seems that wood-wind instruments were still absent from the symphony orchestra in Salzburg.)
Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words