11.   But it was refreshing to hear well-known works performed without the sleek gloss that often mars the work of major orchestras.

12.   But is this really the basis on which a music director of a major orchestra should be selected?

13.   But the Brooklyn Philharmonic is not a major orchestra.

14.   But would the ASO dare to become the first major orchestra to hire a female music director?

15.   Carr gives Bernstein his due, but he shows that the major orchestras of the world never stopped performing Mahler.

16.   Clearly, the formality involved when a major orchestra presents a public concert is touchier.

17.   Critics should keep urging major orchestras and ensembles to program contemporary music.

18.   Despite active commissioning of new work, and performance of it by major orchestras and opera companies, the core repertory goes on from decade to decade unchanged.

19.   From abroad, it is sometimes hard to remember that Berlin has a second major orchestra.

20.   He appeared in concerts with major orchestras, including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics and the Chicago Symphony.