Mr. Slatkin, this splendid orchestra and Fisher's painfully bright acoustics rendered them whole.

They are a splendid orchestra, disciplined and committed in their playing, and firmly directed by conductor Takuo Yuasa.

Nello Santi, conducting the Met's splendid orchestra, ignored all of the foolishness going on in front of him and gave Donizetti's wonderful music considerable life.

Owners, Levinson and Steinreich, secured some of New York's leading talent to entertain as well as a splendid orchestra.

Perhaps the best way to measure Mr. Jordan's splendid orchestra, however, is not against its own past but by the values of other recent visitors to Carnegie Hall.

Moreover, Valery Gergiev's radiant, tellingly paced and intricately textured performance with the splendid orchestra and chorus of the Maryinsky enhanced the opera's inherent timelessness.

At Smith's suggestion, the program included the "10 best radio actors", an "announcer extraordinary", a "splendid orchestra" and a "clever director."

The vocal soloists as well as instrumental soloists from the splendid orchestra of 36 applied ornamentation liberally to fine effect.

You, Baroness Ashton, are now the voice of Europe, and with the External Action Service, you are getting a splendid orchestra.

The Met's splendid orchestra responded generously to his combination of fluid line and careful attention to detail, as it had in last year's similarly memorable "Traviata."