The Sinfonia consists of skilled and unskilled musicians anyone could join the orchestra.

NPR: Another Batch of Annoying Music

Yuri Bashmet and Uto Ugi performed Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra.

ECONOMIST: Musical moments

"The Sage, Gateshead, home of the Northern Sinfonia, has a "pay standstill" in operation at the moment, " it said.

BBC: Downturn costing orchestra brass

The Portsmouth Sinfonia's version of Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra", also known as the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, is high on the list of suggestions.

NPR: Another Batch of Annoying Music

Lady Wigley's contribution - as the harpist Elinor Bennett - was to lead an ensemble from the South Bank Sinfonia in the premiere of a musical tribute composed by the Parliament Choir's composer in residence, Nicholas O'Neill, Why Should We Not Sing?

BBC: Plaid Cymru peer: Lloyd George knew my grandmother

For the fourth Opera Annex show, the BLO co-commissioned "Clemency, " by the Scottish composer James MacMillan, with the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera and the Britten Sinfonia, and presented its North American premiere at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter on Boston's South Side last week.

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