The Philadelphia Orchestra, one of this country’s celebrated “Big Five” symphonies, has long been regarded as an ultratraditional bastion of musical excellence. Its famous string sound, honed to ...
In its 76-year history, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia has dispatched its talented orchestra only once to the Lehigh Valley, and that was in 1993 when the orchestra, with Andre Previn ...
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When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra - one of the most famous in Africa - in 1994, they had so few instruments that musicians had to share. They got to play them for only ...
They got to play them for only 15 minutes before handing them on to the next person. "When a string broke, we would replace it with bicycle (brake) cables," he told AFP. With the Democratic Republic ...