chamber orchestra
Noun
Meaning
small orchestra; usually plays classical music
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Examples
She will play with the Summer Music Institute chamber orchestra, taking part in two public concerts at the well-known Kennedy Centre Concert Hall and chamber music performances at the Millenium Stage.
Lee Kopp, who handles public relations for Symphony Silicon Valley and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, voices profound unease.
On November 30, 1949, Norman Granz arranged for Parker to record an album of ballads with a mixed group of jazz and chamber orchestra musicians.
In 1968 Robert Hughes arranged a number of Stevenson's works for chamber orchestra, which toured the Pacific Northwest that year.
A leading chamber orchestra might employ as many as fifty musicians; some are much smaller than that.
A sinfonietta usually denotes a somewhat smaller orchestra (though still not a chamber orchestra).