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in addition to composing orchestral and chamber music , Joseph R. Wood arranged the Chiquita Banana song for Xavier Cugat ?
in 1952, flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer was the first woman to be named principal chair of a major US orchestra ?
the De La Salle University Pops Orchestra (pictured ) is the first pop orchestra in the Philippines ?
the National Youth Orchestra of Wales has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe 's longest-standing national youth orchestra?
when Birmingham -based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London ?
an early Washington National Opera , unrelated to its modern namesake, presented Bidu Sayão in her 1936 U.S. operatic debut with organ , not orchestra , accompaniment owing to a financial dispute?
Mario Duschenes was the widely admired conductor of young people's orchestra concerts across Canada ?
Belgian avant-garde singer Catherine Jauniaux has been described as a "one-woman orchestra " and a "human sampler "?
Bristol 's classical chamber orchestra , the Emerald Ensemble , play standing up and have performed at a local nightclub?
Polish composer Rafał Augustyn ′s Symphony of Hymns took twenty years to complete, typically lasts for 100 minutes and requires an orchestra of over 170 players?
Napoleon's coronation involved two orchestras with four choruses, numerous military bands and over three hundred musicians?
Arthur Bliss 's first major work for orchestra , A Colour Symphony , depicts in music the heraldic significance of the colours purple , red , blue and green , and was dedicated to the conductor Adrian Boult ?
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Question 2 : Composers such as the young ________ would then have a fixed body of instrumentalists to work with.
Question 3 : Which of the following titles did Orchestra have?
Question 4 : What format does Orchestra follow?
Question 5 : ________ had one of the most famous orchestras of that time, where notated dynamics and phrasing, previously quite rare, became standard (see Mannheim school ).
Question 6 : These advances would lead ________ to write a landmark book on instrumentation , which was the first systematic treatise on the use of instrumental sound as an expressive element of music.
Question 8 : His rival and friend ________ would adopt many of these innovations in his touring of Europe.
Question 10 : The most frequently performed repertoire for a symphony orchestra is Western classical music or ________ .