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    The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. It is the resident orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham...
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    Andris Nelsons (category Honorary Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Opera, chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, and music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Nelsons was born in Riga...
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  • The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was a professional symphony orchestra based in Birmingham, England between 1906 and 1918. The orchestra was founded...
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    1991. It is home to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and hosts around 270 events a year. It was completed at a cost of £30 million. The hall's...
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    a Lithuanian conductor. She was the musical director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO). Gražinytė-Tyla was born in Vilnius, Lithuania...
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    Simon Rattle (category London Symphony Orchestra principal conductors)
    1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from...
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    Edward Gardner (conductor) (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
    director of English National Opera from 2007 to 2015. From 2010 to 2016, he was principal guest conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and...
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    most visited city in the United Kingdom by people from foreign nations as of 2022. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet...
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  • Sakari Oramo (category People of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra)
    of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), having conducted the CBSO in two concerts prior to that appointment. He then assumed the post of...
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  • leading orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Los...
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  • Orchestra, the original name of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Collateralized bond obligation, a type of collateralized debt obligation Columbium...
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  • Ron Goodwin (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    many symphony orchestras at home and abroad including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...
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    outside London. Birmingham's major cultural institutions – the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham Repertory Theatre...
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    Nigel Kennedy (category Penguin Cafe Orchestra members)
    Kennedy's grandfather was Lauri Kennedy, principal cellist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and his grandmother was Dorothy Kennedy, a pianist. Lauri and Dorothy...
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  • "City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra announces its 2018–19 Concert Season at Symphony Hall, Birmingham" (PDF) (Press release). City of Birmingham Symphony...
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    Andrzej Panufnik (category Chopin University of Music alumni)
    British citizenship. In 1957, he became chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a post he relinquished after two years to devote all...
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    Michael Jeffrey Shapiro (category Pupils of Vincent Persichetti)
    Quartet, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Los Angeles Opera, the...
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    The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an English orchestra, founded in 1893 and originally based in Bournemouth. With a remit to serve the South...
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  • The UK premiere was on 13 October 1987 at Birmingham Town Hall, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) conducted by Simon Rattle. Rattle...
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    The New Birmingham Orchestra, sometimes called simply the Birmingham Orchestra, was a professional symphony orchestra established by Thomas Beecham and...
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  • Simon Rattle discography (category Discographies of classical conductors)
    The Building of The House; Overture War Requiem Young Apollo Russian Funeral Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Bruckner, Anton Symphony No. 7 Carter...
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    following: The symphony was premiered on January 13, 1945, in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory by the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by...
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  • Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras, the Hallé Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In Scandinavia...
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  • Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie), Op. 64, is a tone poem for large orchestra written by German composer Richard Strauss in 1915. It is one of Strauss's...
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    was used as music for one of the segments in the 1999 Disney film, Fantasia 2000, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In it, a slapstick flamingo...
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  • Michael Seal (category Alumni of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire)
    as the Associate Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), having served previously as the orchestra's Assistant Conductor. He is...
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  • Emma Stenning (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
    professional, currently based in Birmingham, where she is the Chief Executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She joined the CBSO from Soulpepper...
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    David Burbidge (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    15 October 1943) is Chairman of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), former Chairman of the Coventry City of Culture Trust having led the...
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    Scala Theatre Orchestra Milan, Vienna Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Ensemble...
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  • Jonathan Kelly (oboist) (category Academics of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire)
    Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music. In 1991, he was appointed Principal Oboe in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, under...
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