11.   In others, it slows down tempos, adds horns and hires a string section.

12.   Its string sections sound warm and full-bodied, and the woodwinds have almost European sonorities.

13.   No conductor, no matter how skilled, could do that if the string section was missing.

14.   Right now, Payton is an orchestra conductor who is allowed to rehearse only with the string section.

15.   Soon thereafter, along with a modest but successful career in the string sections of Boston ensembles, she took up singing in earnest.

16.   The core band follows him off, leaving the string section bewildered.

17.   The first was a Holly Cole CD featuring female vocal, acoustic bass, acoustic piano, and a string section.

18.   The second movement, a fantasia, pits the solo cello against the string sections and an octet that seems obsessed with a single rhythmical idea.

19.   The string sections have played together for years and have a balanced ensemble and flowing sound, though the woodwind and brass sections are weaker than the strings.

20.   These days, pop stars are playing with samplers and string sections, computers and keyboards, turntables and tapes.