Orpheus has commissioned six composers to each take one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and write a new piece based closely on the master's.

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He is one of carnival's most prolific float builders, creating the rides of some major parades like Orpheus, Endymion and Bacchus.

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This Carnegie Hall concert, by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, features two orchestral pieces by Schumann that have been remodeled, so to speak one by the composer himself, and another by Paul Chihara.

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