Orchestra Warming Up

Stringed tones swim through silvery notes as the players prepare their presentation for the premier performance of their professional lives, and harness their skilled hands and honed instruments for the most magnificent harmony ever had on this city's symphonically set stage. In Western classical music, a symphony is an extended musical composition, scored almost always for orchestra. The word symphony derives from Greek συμφωνία, meaning "agreement or concord of sound". With the rise of established professional orchestras, the symphony assumed a more prominent place in concert life between approximately 1790 and 1820. Symphonies at this time, whether for concert, opera, or church use, were not considered the major works on a program and were divided up between other works. Beethoven dramatically expanded the symphony. His Symphony No. 3 has a scale and emotional range that sets it apart from earlier works, and Symphony No. 5 is arguably the most famous symphony ever written. This sound uses the following file from istockphoto.com: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-audio-10377562-orchestra-tuning-sfx.php