Examples of use of BBC Symphony Orchestra
1. One girl on her 21st birthday is said to have received a card signed by half the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
2. Musicians as young as 15 have also been invited to perform within the ranks of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the first time.
3. Striking a chord Hottest tickets Wagner‘s Die Walkre (Covent Garden production) Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Valery Gergiev and the World Orchestra for Peace Handel‘s Julius Caesar (Glyndebourne production) Mariss Jansons and Concertgebouw Orchestra: Mahler‘s Sixth Symphony Blue Peter Prom Ravi Shankar and BBC Symphony Orchestra Not so hot BBC Symphony Orchestra: Lyadov, Knussen, Glanert, Stravinsky BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Dukas, Watkins, Stravinsky BBC Philharmonic: Stravinsky, MacMillan, Ravel Deutsches Sinfonie–Orchester: Weber, Unsuk Chin, Bruckner (6th Symphony) BBC Symphony Orchestra: Berg, Mahler (Das klagende Lied) BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Tippett (Vision of St Augustine), Shostakovich (10th Symphony) BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Michael Berkeley, Britten, Vaughan Williams (A London Symphony) BBC Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky, Marc–Andr Dalbavie, Shostakovich (11th Symphony) Excludes late–night concerts
4. But this has really inspired me as an artist to try new things – this music thing can really bring people together; it‘s got no boundaries.‘ ‘It‘s an ambitious project, because we didn‘t want to just make that awful "fusion‘ music", with the orchestra playing big sugary chords,‘ said Charles Hazelwood, conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. ‘We‘re really pushing the orchestra to imitate the electronic sounds used in grime.
5. In a spectacularly unlikely combination, they have joined forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a night of live ‘classical grime‘ at the Hackney Empire next month. ‘Grime music has a lot of classical overtones,‘ explained DaVinChe, a 20–year–old producer from south London who has previously worked on tracks for Kano and the rapper Ms Dynamite. ‘I use a lot of orchestral–based sounds and chord progressions in my music anyway, so this has come quite easily to me.‘ Initially, not all the artists involved were so open–minded. ‘At first I thought it was a crazy idea.