1.   When string ensembles played in four parts, as they sometimes did if circumstances limited the number of players available, they simply left out the quinte.

2.   A local orchestra and an eight-member Egyptian string ensemble are to appear with them.

3.   It has solo pianists and harpists, a chamber orchestra, string ensembles, a dance band and a Dixieland band.

4.   Only the slight looseness in the string ensemble betrays musicians who evidently do not play together day in and day out.

5.   So she and her team clung to Boston classics for the party such as a string ensemble doing Boston Pops numbers inside a faux swan boat.

6.   Two songs are collaborations between Costello and Fleshquartet, a Swedish string ensemble that plays electric instruments.

7.   We liked the absence of bigness for its own sake and the clarity of small string ensembles in synchrony.

8.   While four helicopters filled with paparazzi hovered outside, a string ensemble and the San Francisco Boys Choir performed at the ceremony.