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December 01, 2008
The best orchestra in the world
The envelope, please.
And the winner is... the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, above, sharing the stage with CocoRosie in a Queen's Day Eve concert on April 29, 2008.
The top 20:
1. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
2. Berlin Philharmonic
3. Vienna Philharmonic
4. London Symphony Orchestra
5. Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
7. Cleveland Orchestra
8. Los Angeles Philharmonic
9. Budapest Festival Orchestra
10. Dresden Staatskapelle
11. Boston Symphony Orchestra
12. New York Philharmonic
13. San Francisco Symphony
14. Mariinsky Theater Orchestra
15. Russian National Orchestra
16. Leningrad Philharmonic
17. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
18. Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
19. Saito Kinen Orchestra (Japan)
20. Czech Philharmonic
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You could look it up.
Sorry — for a sec there I forgot your German's a little rusty.
Try here.
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Comments
My God, Cleveland at 7!!!!!!!
Now between the Rock & Roll hall of fame and this, Shame on me if I don't visit more often (I live near Pittsburgh, only 3 hours away).
Posted by: Joe Peach | Dec 1, 2008 7:31:03 PM
anony knows the score.
The bamboo drinking straw orchestra leaves the Concertgebouw gasping in the dirt, every time.
Good call.
Posted by: Flautist | Dec 1, 2008 5:46:50 PM
bamboo drinking straw
Posted by: anonymous | Dec 1, 2008 2:50:44 PM
Hah!
Posted by: Flautist | Dec 1, 2008 1:10:39 PM
