Word: orchestra
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Minimalism's master entrepreneur is up to his Fifth Symphony, a multicultural choral fresco on spiritual texts, newly recorded by Dennis Russell Davies and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Like all Glass's other pieces, it consists of the chug-chug repetition of slowly shifting harmonies, ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Alas, what sounded fresh (or at least different) 20 years ago is now as agonizingly familiar as a Hemingway parody. Same old same old same old same...
Martin and the strings section of an orchestra dressed in formal attire while Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ran around blowing bubbles and wreaking havoc with sparklers, balloons and a variety of carnival prizes...
...failed to maintain the standards of music education it set in the 1950s, much less make any progress. When I was a freshman in high school, the only music group supported by the school was a small stage band. We had no choir, no marching band, no orchestra. By the time I graduated, the stage band was gone...
...high school, Jostrom branched out to classical music as well by joining his school's orchestra. This was not a painless introduction to classical music...
...campus, Jostrom is continuing to play classical music as a member of the pops orchestra...