Holland Symfonia is now THE Ballet Orchestra. National and Dutch at the same time

On the phone, it takes some getting used to. 'Good morning, Holland Symfonia speaking', you hear when you call the orchestra in Amsterdam's Q-factory studios. But that's not the orchestra's name at all. In fact, Holland Symfonia has a new name: The Ballet Orchestra.

Coming up with names for orchestras, just start. First, you had the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, regular orchestral partner of the Dutch National Ballet. That sat in the Muziektheater Amsterdam. The idea of an orchestra specifically for ballet came in the y...