orchestral musician
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforchestralandmusician
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orchestral
adjective
uk/ɔːˈkes.trəl/us/ɔːrˈkes.trəl/
connected with or involving an orchestra (= a large group of musicians who play many different ...
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musician
noun[C]
uk/mjuːˈzɪʃ.ən/us/mjuːˈzɪʃ.ən/
someone who is skilled in playing music, usually as ...
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(Definition oforchestralandmusicianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What do you feel are the benefits and the disadvantages of being a full-timeorchestralmusician?
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My conversations with senior conservatoire students, however, seem to suggest some unpreparedness and a lack of awareness of the challenges and difficulties of being anorchestralmusician.
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You need as much training to be a goodorchestralmusicianas to be a medical specialist or a surgeon; but not a general practitioner, however worthy.
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He was an active soloist, recording artist, andorchestralmusician.
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The only role is a tragi-comicalorchestralmusician, who has so many problems with his instrument and his insignificance that he falls into nagging fatalism.
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He performs worldwide asorchestralmusician, soloist, academic music teacher, arranger and conductor.
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By the time he finished school, he was working as anorchestralmusician, and occasionally made short concert tours as a violinist.
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They are also qualities which emerge from the interview extracts with the other orchestral musicians, which are used effectively to support and illustrate the material.
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The second group, 'orchestral musicians', was more diverse.
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Performing parts for the orchestral musicians are available for hire, both at written pitch and transposed for modern orchestras.
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For example, in the first section the orchestral musicians react to impulses from the tape.
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The players' lengths of service as orchestral musicians in a demanding profession were a minimum of 18 years, the rest evenly spread up to 40 years.
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This book has been written by a professional flautist of high standing and long experience, and is expressly intended for young players interested in pursuing a career as orchestral musicians.
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The teachers worked alongside professional composers and animateurs, orchestral musicians, designers, choreographer and director and gathered skills from them which could be incorporated into future teaching.
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The book is divided into 15 chapters, ranging from the history of the orchestra to orchestration and composing, from the revival of historical instruments to training orchestral musicians and recording.
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I would suggest that the conductor's presence as mediator between audience and orchestra also serves to underline the social liminality of orchestral musicians in my sense of the term.
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Although present at the rehearsals of the premiere, in this case this was the first real opportunity the composer had to interact directly with the orchestral musicians.
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The corporation is the biggest single employer of orchestral musicians in the country, with responsibility for five great orchestras.
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He held that that mentality of orchestral musicians has been reduced to that of the factory worker who works only by the clock.
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