The term "NBC Orchestra" may refer to:
- NBC Symphony Orchestra, which existed from 1937 until 1954
- The Tonight Show Band, who used the name from 1962 to 1992
- CBS Orchestra, who used the name briefly from 1987 to 1988
Famous quotes containing the words nbc and/or orchestra:
“Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what’s good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“As the artist
extends his world with
one gratuitous flourish—a stroke of white or
a run on the clarinet above the
bass tones of the orchestra ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)