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Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles
Philharmonic.
An orchestra might also be named after the person who founded it, like the
Hallé, which was founded in 1858 by Sir Charles Hallé.
The other option is to name the orchestra for the purpose it fulfils, such as radio
orchestras or those founded specially to record film soundtracks. Or perhaps
the name will honour the repertoire the orchestra performs, like popular and
light music orchestra, Boston Pops, or The Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment, which borrows the name of the 18th-century period of radical
social change and exchange of ideas that produced the music it specialises in.
But affixed to these names are often other words: symphony in many cases, and
philharmonic in many of the others. But what is the difference between the
terms ‘symphony’ and a ‘philharmonic’, and what do the words actually mean?
Read more: What is a symphony? We explain…
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What is an orchestra?
