chamber orchestra

noun

: a small orchestra usually with one player for each part

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Under the baton of Conductor Laureate Christopher Warren-Green, the Charlotte Symphony will be joined by Sphinx Virtuosi, the chamber orchestra of the Sphinx Organization, a national non-profit organization based in Detroit. Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025 The chamber orchestra meets every Wednesday from 7-8:50 p.m. in Music Building Room 1039, E Loop Rd., Hayward. Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025 The 70-voice chorale will be accompanied by an organist and a chamber orchestra. Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025 Also on the program will be Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s The History of Red, a piece for chamber orchestra and soprano inspired in part by Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chamber orchestra

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First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of chamber orchestra was in 1880

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“Chamber orchestra.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chamber%20orchestra. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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