Describes fifteen different career possibilites with a professional orchestra, including musician, concertmaster, graphic designer, program annotator, piano tuner, conductor, and librarian.
An alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced dictionary of orchestra terms illustrated with photographs and including definitions of the instruments, the instrument groups, and the personnel that make up an orchestra.
Two high school students, members of a prestigious youth orchestra, investigate the sabotage of an important benefit concert and the kidnapping of the orchestra association president.
Traces the history of the orchestra discussing important composers and their works from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Includes a glossary of terms.
Introduces young readers to the different instruments in the orchestra through Camille Saint-Saen's classic composition "Carnival of the Animals, " featuring text that coordinates with each track of the included music CD.
With some help from a frog, Tubby the Tuba shows the orchestra that tubas can play melodies as well as other instruments, and contains a CD of the author's performance with full orchestration.
Two members of the Pirelli Youth Orchestra find their lives in danger when they try to find the practical joker whose string of pranks includes destroying a $250,000 violin.
