From the curve of the orchestra rose the cavea, consisting of seats in semicircular rows, rising from the orchestra at an angle sufficient to enable those who sat in any row to see over those who sat in front of them.
It was impossible, even in the orchestra seats, to look at her in this attitude and not shrink before her; and on the stage she visibly tyrannized over the invalid sisterhood with her full-blown fascinations.
The Orchestra will be considerably enlarged, an Additional Number of the best Instrumental Performers engag'd, and Mr. Arne will accompany the Operas on the Harpsichord.
On the death of Gordon, the leader of the orchestra at Drury Lane, Arne accepted the appointment which was virtually that of conductor.
The Orchestra will be doubled, and there will be a Row at the Pit enclosed for the Musick.
The violoncello had quite recently been introduced into England by Cervetto (Giacobbe Bassevi), who joined the Drury Lane Theatre orchestra in 1738; by his skill he soon made the instrument popular.
Doctor Gozzi had taught me well enough to enable me to scrape on the violin in the orchestra of a theatre, and having mentioned my wishes to M.
The orchestrais striking up again--the scene isn't set yet.
Esther, though the orchestra was playing fortissimo now, and they had spoken so quietly all along that Addie could scarcely have heard without a special effort.
Five years later he became fourth violinist in the court orchestra of the archbishop, but he maintained his close family connections with Augsburg and later encouraged his son not to relax these ties.
Leaving the orchestra to continue unheeded with the prelude to the next verse, Miss Winter walked slowly and deliberately toward him, smiling mischievously.
The house had grown suddenly still, and with an excited gesture, the leader of the orchestra commanded the music to silence A man, bursting with impatience, broke the tense quiet.
The orchestra was hidden in the well provided for it, and apparently murmuring in its sleep.
After some time, the leader of the orchestra climbed into his chair, and the orchestra began to play, and the curtain went up again, on the second act of the masterpiece in hexameters.
With that the orchestra stopped dead as if on purpose to eavesdrop, and I had made a present of the name to the whole audience.
Inside the orchestra box all was silent for a moment or two.
In the smart orchestra boxes many well-known faces were to be seen.
The house was packed, both in the smart orchestra boxes and in the pit, as well as in the more plebeian balconies and galleries above.
The unseen orchestra sighing and thrilling forth the amorous phrases of Samson et Dalila, leaped all at once into another familiar theme.
To the wail, clang and clash of strange, discordant, exotic music, rendered by an orchestra of coloured performers, two wide circles of dancers rhythmically spun.
A crash from the orchestra and three couples, oddly costumed, leaped suddenly out upon the floor.
At the cafe end of Fanshaw's enclosure the Frogged Roumanian String Orchestra were playing the "Dance Rhapsody" of Delius.
And the jackasses got upon their feet with a sound as though the packed house were tumbling to pieces, and the Orchestra changed on the final bar of "Rule Britannia!
The soup came up from the kitchen--but simultaneously the orchestra leader came up from the bar, where he had absorbed the tone color inherent in a seidel of beer.
The conductor alone wore a frock coat, and sat in his place like a specimen from another age, isolated in fact by his smartness alike from his ragged orchestra and from the stalls behind him.
Kamenev then spoke of those who had died on the way, mentioning Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, and the whole theatre stood again while the orchestra played, "You fell as victims.
Opinions as to the work were divided, but there was only one opinion as to the excellence of the orchestra under Hans von Bülow's leadership and the singing of Ludwig and Malwina Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
He was received with loud acclamations, and the orchestra added its quota of fanfares.
He ordered that theorchestra and chorus of the Hof Theater should be for two months in the year at the disposal of Richard Wagner.
At the east end the orchestra is placed within a recess, under a fine deeply-moulded stone arch, of large size.
The incidents are picturesque, striking, and varied, calling all the powers of the orchestra into play.
They engaged the tigers and the French riding people over the way; and there was Pottle bellowing away in my place to the orchestra and the orders.
At last, the orchestra left off, and the curtain rose upon the new piece.
The curtain down, the orchestra plays a prelude, the Chorus enters as before, and the leader speculates on Cain's behavior.
After a prelude by the orchestra the curtain rose and discovered Abraham and Isaac in loving discourse, with figures in the background, admirably costumed and grouped.
After the prelude by the orchestra the curtain rises and discovers old Jacob, surrounded by his sons in various groups.
The orchestra was sunk below the level of the stage, the proscenium painted to represent columns and entablature.
The orchestra had ceased playing, leaving him on a dizzy harmony, the riddle of which could not be solved.
But the orchestra exhibited such an overpoweringly novel and abundant fancy that there was nothing to be done but to sit and listen open-mouthed.
But the orchestramade no mistake; they were sure of themselves.
He made desperate signs to the orchestra not to go on without him.
The opinion already expressed as to the performance of this orchestra was confirmed.
The orchestra was surpassingly good,--especially in its piano and forte, and its careful crescendo.
The veteran composer, on his way home, came to Bonn, and there accepted an invitation from the Electoral Orchestra to a breakfast in Godesberg.
Four years, at the least, of service in such an orchestra may well be considered of all schools the best in which Beethoven could have been placed.
It would be difficult to find another orchestra in which the violins and basses are throughout in such excellent hands.
Even the members of this remarkable orchestra are, without exception, his admirers, and all ear whenever he plays.
The front area of the stage was a little elevated above that part of the orchestra where the musicians were placed, and was called the Proscenium.
In a different and angular direction, the tiers and ranges of seats were separated by stairs, making so many lines in the circumference of the seats, and leading from the orchestra to the doors of the theatre.
The father kept a stationery and notion "bazaar" next to Heise's harness-shop on Polk Street, while the oldest son played a third violin in the orchestra of a theatre.
The orchestra banged away at the overture, suddenly finishing with a great flourish of violins.
The orchestra entered, each man crawling out from an opening under the stage, hardly larger than the gate of a rabbit hutch.
Then his grief found utterance, and the closing strains of the orchestra were mingled with a prolonged wail of infinite sadness.
The orchestra played the tune of this chorus a second time, with certain variations, while the girl danced to it.
Then the orchestra played a quick-step strain, and the curtain rose on an interior furnished with two red chairs and a green sofa.
The orchestra is good, and composed of blacks and whites, like the notes of a piano, mingled in harmonious confusion.
The orchestra was really good, and led by a first-rate musician.
And, finally, listening in the evening to the orchestra in the corridor of the New Willard, we discussed the large opportunities for a serious literary work dealing with the varieties and idiosyncrasies of the Washington hair cut.
Keyes walked home to the sound of a great orchestra reverberating through him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orchestra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
