0 a large orchestra (= a large group of musicians who play many different instruments together and are led by a conductor) that plays classical music: --
He is ready to conduct a symphony orchestra.
It is impossible to run a large symphony orchestra on a shoestring, or to run good opera cheaply.
Concerto for 10 young pianists and symphony orchestra (1978) consists of a set of child portraits and childhood scenes.
The 'sound' of that period was the big symphony orchestra, whose evolution climaxed with the last post-romantics and impressionists.
His great love is the symphony orchestra, and the quality of the concertos, tone poems and symphonies attest to his natural skills in this field.
Representatives of most instruments of the modern symphony orchestra were included, as well as an organist and a conductor.
The wrong note played in the chamber orchestra after all is felt more keenly than the wrong note played in the symphony orchestra.
By the same token, one could rhetorically ask what is the point of criticizing a university's symphony orchestra.
