Example sentences for: orchestral

How can you use “orchestral” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The main venues for major performances are the Concertgebouw near Museumplein for orchestral and chamber concerts; Muziek Theater on the banks of the Amstel, which is home to the National Ballet and also holds performances of opera; Bimhius in Oude Schans  — a Jazz/Blues venue; and the Koninklijk Theatre Carré near Magere Brug on the Amstel, which hosts musicals.

  • He had performed alongside Charlie Parker, led a marvelous quintet with John Coltrane, and collaborated with Gil Evans on such jazz orchestral arrangements as Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess . Davis' 1959 sextet recording, Kind of Blue , became, with its haikulike lyricism, synonymous with cool and provided a soundtrack for nearly every party with intellectual pretensions.

  • Not only is "You're the Top" one of the few songs where the little orchestral fill-ins are an intrinsic part of the song but, more than that, the fill-ins actually are the song: The sung bits "paradoxically" are the fill-ins--little conversational lyric phrases that fall in the gaps between the plinketty-plinks.

  • The Netherlands National Opera and National Ballet are based here, and there are numerous orchestral, musical, and comedy venues, along with revues and dance shows.

  • His works include the operas Peter Grimes (1945) and Billy Budd (1951), the choral works Hymn to St Cecilia (1942) and A War Requiem (1962), and numerous orchestral pieces.


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