This year it gave the Smithsonian $242,000 to found an orchestra dedicated to performing the classic works of the American orchestral tradition.

The music is more in the traditional orchestral tradition than much of Glass's work as a familiar doorway to images so disconnected from the familiar world.

One looks to him for restorative, sometimes inspired interpretations of the great orchestral tradition.

It is rooted in the hundred-year-old orchestral traditions of the largest cultural center of Thrace.

It would touch on the styles of many cultures and demonstrate why the orchestral tradition and its achievements should be part of every American's heritage.

The only people being asked to "assimilate" culturally are those who uphold the importance of the orchestral tradition.

Kurt Masur leads the orchestra in a stylistically varied group of works from the Russian orchestral tradition.

The changes indicate both how fragile and how malleable an orchestral tradition can be.

He was responsible for introducing Japanese audiences to much of the European orchestral tradition through his conducting.

As a composer Lindsay has specialised in uniting the bagpipe and orchestral traditions.