The orchestra uses modern instruments, and one hears little that is finicky in matters of period practice.
The orchestra also uses a few women as substitutes.
Major orchestras generally use bell bronze cymbals, which are capable of a greater dynamic range than any others.
It is not as though the orchestra uses these weeks to present thorough (or even glancing) surveys of their honorees' work.
The orchestra, like other major American ensembles, uses blind auditions but retains an almost completely white face.
Major orchestras used to come to Athens, if at all, for an outdoor festival that took place once a year.
Other visiting orchestras have used this opening spot for new works from their homelands.
The orchestra used various electronic instruments, such as theremins, electric organs and early synthesisers.
This orchestra used to play music for films and gramophone.
After his hands were badly burned in a fire, he turned to conducting, and his live orchestras used the new medium of radio broadcasting.