1. Lacking the generous subsidies that European orchestras receive, modern American groups are under increasing pressure to play popular pieces. 2. Even Bernstein, however, was a more restrained conductor in front of these European orchestras. 3. For some years, talk has spread in the music world that he is being considered for the directorship of the Berlin Philharmonic or another European orchestra. 4. He also was a guest conductor and oboist for other European orchestras. 5. It is also an inventive packaging idea, and packaging is something European orchestras will have to take more seriously as government support dwindles. 6. Levine has his European orchestra now, a Munich Philharmonic badly in need of rehabilitation. 7. Most of the orchestra had been trained in Europe and had come from European orchestras. 8. The uneasiness of Asian solo instruments against the European orchestra is further mitigated by subtle doctorings of the latter. 9. Today most of the musicians play with top European orchestras, but they have chosen to spend their vacation performing at Aix. 10. Unconscious ones are often European orchestras, whose wind soloists are highly competitive within their own ranks and tend to push upward in the heat of battle. |