Miller's television drama, "Playing for Time", told of an orchestra of prisoners at the Nazi death camp,Auschwitz, during World War Two.

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He would go to bed after dinner. But he could hear the orchestra playing until three in the morning.

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Mister Bernstein wrote other major classical works through the years for a large group of singers and an orchestra.

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In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

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Also in nineteen forty-two, the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra asked eighteen composers to write music expressing love for America.

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The music is performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, of which Ted Nash is a member.

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He says he likes that the music is more challenging than what he plays with his school orchestra.

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She invited her friends that night for a special musical performance by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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In nineteen twenty-four, jazz musician and orchestra leader Paul Whiteman decided to organize a special concert to show that jazz was serious music.

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Koussevitzky led the orchestra for the first performance of Copland's early work, "Music for the Theater,"

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Here is his piece "Finding Rothko" which he wrote for the IRIS chamber orchestra in Tennessee.

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Here now is the Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra, with conductor George Cleve and pianist Jeremy Menuhin.

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Or a mandolin,or a fiddle or whatever. And some kids come with years of classical violin lessons or Suzuki violin or school orchestra lessons.

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Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded a famous song Mood Indigo about the deep blue color,indigo.

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An arrangement, a little bit of a simplified version of it, where they're going to be doing 'Ode to Joy' with the Orchestra of St.Luke's."

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in nineteen twenty-five. Koussevitzky also conducted Copland's "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" in nineteen twenty-seven.

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Gershwin got busy. And,in that short time, he composed a piece for piano and orchestra.

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Michelle,who is now in college, says she likes that the students run the orchestra themselves.

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We leave you with the orchestra in a concert recorded at Shenandoah University in Winchester,Virginia.

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