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| Northwest Symphony Orchestra | |
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| Orchestra | |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Location | Burien, Washington |
| Website | northwestsymphonyorchestra |
The Northwest Symphony Orchestra (NWSO) is an American orchestra based in the Seattle suburb of Burien, Washington. It was founded in 1987. The NWSO have been recorded on three CDs on the KOCH, Albany, and Gale labels. The orchestra has been featured on National Public Radio and NBC's Today Show . [1]
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An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass, brass instruments such as the horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba, woodwinds such as the flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon, and percussion instruments such as the timpani, bass drum, triangle, snare drum and cymbals, each grouped in sections. Other instruments such as the piano and celesta may sometimes appear in a fifth keyboard section or may stand alone, as may the concert harp and, for performances of some modern compositions, electronic instruments.
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