The show was also notable for its musical score, which is practically unique among cartoons in that it was performed by a full-size professional orchestra, namely the London Philharmonic.

We all learn languages of listening, ways of interpreting reproductions, imagining full-size orchestras emerging from clock radios, ignoring hisses or distortions, compensating for flaws.

Britten turns the story of the German writer Aschenbach's erotic obsession with a 14-year-old boy in cholera-infested Venice into a chamber opera for full-size orchestra.

The tumultuous reception accorded New York's first reasonably full-size orchestra in 1839 - a "perfect hurricane and thunder of applause," according to one account - is a case in point.

Rose Hall also houses a combined rehearsal hall and recording studio that is big enough to hold a full-size orchestra and choir; a sprung floor will accommodate dance rehearsals there.

He was also the founder in 1894 of Ottawa's first full-size orchestra, the Ottawa Amateur Orchestral Society.

Mr. Jenkins, along with his wife Anne, founded Ottawa's first full-size orchestra, the Ottawa Amateur Orchestral Society in 1894.

A Sinfonietta is a name for a musical group that is larger than a chamber ensemble but smaller than a full-size or symphony orchestra.

But "small" doesn't really fit the New York Grand Opera, which plays Verdi in Central Park with a full-size orchestra.

And he doesn't need the doubling of winds and brasses that many conductors resort to in an effort to restore plausible balance in a full-size modern orchestra.