In 1940, Artie Shaw and his Orchestra recorded Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" for RCA Victor.
Duke Ellington heard recordings of her singing and hired her as a vocalist with his orchestra.
After almost 18 years in office, the monetary maestro seems to have lost control over these members of his orchestra.
' He used to play things by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra.
His orchestra respects the dynamic contrasts, with pin-droppingly audible quiet passages that make you hear the music as though for the first time.
Swing-band leader Tommy Dorsey, who gave Sinatra his start, leads the eighth rendition with a meandering, almost oriental, tempo, each phrasing revealing yet another facet of his orchestra.
Performers will include Nick Yulman and his robotic orchestra and electronic music by chiptunes artist Bit Shifter.
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Karajan's final concert and recording, made that same month, was with his other orchestra: the Vienna Philharmonic.
Valdes started his own orchestra, and in October 1960 he asked for permission to travel to Mexico with the band.
The world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev, himself an Ossetian, gave a concert in the devastated South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali with his home orchestra, the Mariinsky of St Petersburg.
Asked on a visit to Berlin what he thought of rumours that he was on the short list to take over the Philharmonic, he replied that he was quite happy with his own orchestra in Los Angeles, thank you.
Playing music from his big-band tribute to Nat King Cole's Spanish-language albums, saxophonist David Murray's Cuban Ensemble occupied the same space as Mr. Bernstein and his Millennial Territory Orchestra, which drew from its new album, a take on the music of Sly Stone.
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Surrey-born Sir Colin made his debut with the orchestra in 1959 and was its longest serving principal conductor.
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He installed 12 Step programs in his church and an orchestra.
De Preist is sitting in a wheel chair at the back of the room as 21-year-old Sean is up on the podium, doing all he can to manage the large orchestra at his fingertips.
Many hours have been spent not just in concerts given by the six conductor-orchestra pairs taken as his subject, but in observing them in the rehearsals beforehand and quizzing members of the orchestra about their side of the experience.
He told the audience he had got to know another part of his "family" - members of the Unhasu orchestra - who were playing with his "French family".
James Levine drew rich colors from the orchestra, yet his slow tempos contributed to the grimness of the night.
It took Franz Liszt 26 years to compose his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat Major.
During a lull in "Das Rheingold, " he noted, he and his colleagues even leave the orchestra pit to retune before their next entrance.
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Mr. Spears, a young, New York-based postminimalist composer, matches the spareness of Ms. Moshiri's text with luminous, pointillistic writing for his five-piece chamber orchestra.
Mr Clinton will read from the speeches of his predecessor Abraham Lincoln to orchestra's rendition of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait at a concert on 25 March at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Solti admired his ambition to take the Mariinsky Orchestra outside Russia and share its music with the world.
Scott Faulkner, of the Reno Chamber Orchestra, says that his group kept the composer busy, and not just at rehearsal.
British conductor Sir Simon Rattle has made his taking over of the philharmonic orchestra conditional on a massive injection of cash.
In 1954, Arturo Toscanini conducted his last concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
The ground shakes when buses roar by, and his strings are barely audible in the orchestra of horns, trucks and sirens.
' It seemed real when the orchestra left and Nathaniel opened his violin case in the empty auditorium, tucked the instrument under his chin and played Disney Hall.
Max Roach was still a teenager when he landed a job with that orchestra, but it was his association with another musician that would launch the drummer's career.
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