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In addition, philharmonic concerts from world-famous conductors form a sizeable part of the Opera House's repertoire.

The iTunes version of the album featured three exclusive tracks: Let Me Sign by Robert Pattinson, La Traviata performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Clare De Luna, a DeBussy composition performed the APM orchestra.

From 1892 to 1899 he conducted the Philharmonic Concerts, and was knighted in 1894.

Among musical organizations may be mentioned the Handel and Haydn Society (1815), the Harvard Musical Association (1837), the Philharmonic (1880) and the Symphony Orchestra, organized in 1881 by the generosity of Henry Lee Higginson.

No one of these works is now known to be in existence; the only example we possess of Zarlino's compositions on a grand scale is a MS. mass for four voices, in the library of the Philharmonic Lyceum at Bologna.

The British army is bound by His Majesty's Rules and Regulations to play at the Philharmonic pitch, and a fork tuned to a' 452.5 in 1890 is preserved as the standard for the Military Training School at Kneller Hall.

About that time, or it may be a few years earlier, Sir George Smart established a fork for the Philharmonic Society, a' 433.2.

But the Philharmonic Society adopted the Diapason Normal in 1896, and the military bands have not gone with it.

Stein tuned Mozart's piano to a fork a' 421.6, and the Broadwood pianos used at the London Philharmonic Society in its first concerts (1813) were tuned to a fork c 2 506.8, which gives a mean tone a' 423.7.

In 1855 he accepted an invitation to London, where he conducted the concerts of the Philharmonic Society with great success.

Synonyms:

orchestra, symphony, symphony orchestra,

Antonyms:

unmelodic, nonmusical, musicalness, musicality,