The orchestra took the first prize in Kremona's international competition among 32 highly honoured orchestras.

Managers say that given the overlap common among freelance orchestras, 250 is a more realistic number.

But differences among orchestras on such matters as numbers of rehearsals evidently have made a uniform agreement impossible.

Involving the musicians in the search is uncommon among American orchestras.

The Philadelphia Orchestra has never quite outlived its reputation as a peacock among orchestras.

In the early '40 cetra was considered the best among Italian orchestras able to express a jazz language.

This restructuring, with pay cuts as a more or less central element, was widely espoused as a model for the future, even among larger orchestras.

But it is unprecedented among major orchestras, in part because such disputes rarely reach outside arbitrators.

The festival approach is part of a trend among American orchestras toward unusual programming approaches.

It will surely find wide circulation among orchestras looking to dispense their obligation to new music painlessly.