Orchestration

Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony revived matters, with Herreweghe really bringing out the detail in the wonderful storm passage orchestration, yet there was a sense of something bigger missing, both in terms of sound and vision. The...

In this article: Philharmonia, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philippe Herreweghe, Schoenberg, Usher Hall, and Hebrides

...at 13. Eventually, he went to nearby Pittsburgh where he studied harmony, theory, and orchestration with Luigi von Kunits and Emil Paur, then concertmaster and conductor, respectively, of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This was the...

In this article: Charles Wakefield Cadman, Dmitri Tiomkin, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Luigi von Kunits, Emil Paur, Percy Jewett Burrell, and Igor Stravinsky

...Verve's album Urban Hymns topped the album charts in 1997, Klein launched a legal battle because the band had sampled a violin orchestration from the Rolling Stones' The Last Time - owned by ABKCO - on the No2 single Bitter Sweet Symphony.

In this article: Allen Klein, The Beatles, The Verve, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Bitter Sweet Symphony, Abkco, Yoko Ono Lennon, Rolling Stones, and New York

...and Croatian and works out of his home production studio in Venice, California. Romayne studied music and advanced orchestration at the University of Chicago and DePaul University with Cliff Colnot, Chicago Symphony Orchestra new music...

In this article: Douglas Romayne, Angel, Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Annie Award, Peter Tolan, David Greenwalt, and Duck Dodgers

...1887), and an octet for strings, opus 50 (published in or before 1907). Malling wrote the first Danish textbook in orchestration, along French conservatory lines. He was also a music editor, creating piano reductions and vocal scores of...

In this article: Otto Valdemar Malling, Copenhagen, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, and Niels Wilhelm Gade

...and Anton Bruckner. More recently, with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chailly has led recordings of Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, and the Robert Schumann symphonies in the re-orchestrations by Gustav Mahler. In the United States,...

In this article: Riccardo Chailly, Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Salzburg Festival, Gewandhausorchester, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Anton Bruckner, Amsterdam, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra

...ensembles that have commissioned Grantham to write new works. Grantham also collaborated with fellow composer Kent Kennan to author the textbook The Technique of Orchestration. Grantham currently teaches music composition at the University...

In this article: Donald Grantham, University of Southern California, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas, Nadia Boulanger, Kent Kennan, and National Endowment for the Arts

...and 1991. In 1994, Kamen conducted an orchestration of The Who's music for Roger Daltrey's 50th birthday concert series entitled Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who which was subsequently released on CD and DVD. He also...

In this article: Michael Kamen, Mark Snow, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Metallica, S&M, Academy Awards, DVD, and BBC Television

...of the London Symphony Orchestra When You're Young and in Love (1979); orchestrations arranged, produced, and conducted by Van McCoy, with Gene Orloff, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony of Love (1979);...

In this article: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Van McCoy, London Symphony Orchestra, The Hustle, Sylvester Levay, Warren Schatz, and Silver Convention